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First ascent of Mount Everest
Happened
1953
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the top on 29 May 1953.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
“Bestigning Nepaleren Tenzing Norgay og newzealenderen Edmund P. Hillary var de første to til å bestige Mount Everest, 29. mai 1953. Tenzing Norgay og Edmund Hillary AP / NTB Scanpix. Lisens: Begrenset gjenbruk”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19“, tibetansk Chomolungma Mount Everest blev første gang officielt besteget af Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) og Edmund Hillary i 1953, og det har været en magnet for bjergbestigere, siden det blev opmålt i 1850'erne.”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19“osnovan 2012., obuhvaća 78 000 km²). Nakon vi e neuspjelih poku aja 1921–52., prvi se popeo na Mount Everest, 29. V. 1953., Edmund Percival Hillary (iz Novoga Zelanda) sa erpom Tenzingom Norgayom. Godine”Hrvatska enciklopedija (in Croatian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19“ed esploratori himalayani. Nel 1920 cominciarono i tentativi di scalata da parte di spedizioni straniere, ma solo il 29 maggio 1953 una spedizione inglese guidata da J. Hunt consentì a E. Hillary e al nepalese”Sapere.it encyclopedia (De Agostini) (in Italian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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