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Tenzing Norgay poses atop Mount Everest after he and Edmund Hillary became the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit on May 29, 1953. Photograph taken by Hillary.

Tenzing Norgay poses atop Mount Everest after he and Edmund Hillary became the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit on May 29, 1953. Photograph taken by Hillary.

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