Mt. Everest- Pride of the World

Mt. Everest was first climbed on 29th May 1953 by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of

Nepal. This British Expedition was led by John Hunt. The first expedition on Everest was led y Lt. Colonel Charles Howard-Bury in 1921. The early atttempts were make from the Tibetan side as Nepal was closed to outsiders until 1950. Since 1953, more than a thousand people have climbed Everest and among them Apa Sherpa has summitted twenty times. The most commonly used route up the mountain is the South-east Ridge.