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Firantes revisits the crowning of Everest in 1953 when the world’s highest peak was first conquered. Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, becoming the first to achieve this feat. According to current standards, the 1953 British expedition, led in an almost military fashion by Sir John...
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