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# Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hilary
- URL: https://techspec.cc/sir-edmund-hilary-and-sherpa-tenzing-norgay/
- Published: 2013-12-01T20:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-07T05:59:03.000Z
- Author: techspec
- Tags: Tenzing Norgay, Sir Edmund Hilary, everest, mountaineering, humans in nature, hiking, black & white, cream, snow, cold, blue

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, sat here drinking tea during a break before their successful summit of Everest in 1953.  
  
This photo was taken by George Band, OBE, the youngest of the mountaineers on the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first known successful ascent of the mountain.