Conquering Everest  Rolex and exploration  On 29 May 1953, two
men fired with extraordinary determination were the first to
reach Mount Everest’s 8,848-metre summit. Sir Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay, members of a British expedition led by Sir John
Hunt, achieved the goal that dozens of other earlier expeditions
had tried to reach: to stand on the top of the world.  Keep
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