More than a century ago, scaling Mount Everest was the reserve of a handful brave pioneers who tried and failed to conquer the world’s tallest peak.
It was not until 1953 that New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary reached the summit with his sherpa Tenzing Norgay, succeeding where 12 others had failed – one of those was Englishman George Mallory who some suggest reached the peak during his doomed 1924 expedition before falling to his death on the way down.
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