1953 newspaper EDMUND HILLARY is 1st to CLIMB to top of MOUNT EVEREST mountain

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1953 newspaper EDMUND HILLARY is 1st to CLIMB to top of MOUNT EVEREST mountain:
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1953 newspaper EDMUND HILLARY becomes the first person toCLIMB to the summitMOUNT EVEREST mountain in the Himalayas, NEPAL

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This newspaper contains a front page picture and report on New Zealand beekeeper EDMUND HILLARY and his Nepalese guide TENZING NORGAY becoming the first persons ever to reach the summit of MT EVEREST, the tallest mountain in the world.

James Morris, the correspondent on the spot of The Times newspaper, heard the news at Base Camp on 30 May and sent a coded message by runner to Namche Bazaar, where a wireless transmitter was used to forward it as a telegram to the British Embassy in Kathmandu.

The conquest of Everest was probably the last major news item ever to be delivered to the world by runner.

The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth British mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded. Led by Colonel John Hunt, it was organized and financed by the Joint Himalayan Committee. News of the expedition\'s success on Friday 29 May 1953 reached London in time to be released on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II\'s coronation, 2 June.

On 27 May, the expedition made its second and final assault on the summit with the second climbing pair, the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay from Nepal. Norgay had previously ascended to a record high point on Everest as a member of the Swiss expedition of 1952. They reached the summit at 11:30 am on 29 May 1953, climbing the South Col route. Before descending, they stopped at the summit long enough to take photographs and to bury some sweets and a small cross in the snow.

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