MT, EVEREST ( SAGARMATHA ), (8,848M) The highest mountain in the world. Mt, Everest was first ascended Tenzing Norgay Sherpa of nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand on 29th May 1953. This British Expedition was led by John Hunt. The first expedition on Everest was led by lt. Colonel Charles Howard- Bury in 1921. The early attempts were made from the Tibetan side as Nepal was closed to outsiders until1950. since 1953, more than thousand climbers have climbed Everest and among them Apa Sherpa has ascended the peak 21 times. The most commonly used route up the mountain is the South - east Ridge. Reinhold Messner and Peter Habelar were the first to climb to the summit without the aidof bottled oxygen and Messner also become the first to accomplish a solo climb. He was also the first to climb all the fourteen eight-thousanders, a feat emulated by many today.
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