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Tenzing Norgay achieves the summit of Mt. Everest, May 29, 1953. Photograph taken by Edmund Hillary.

Copyright Royal Geographic Society and taken from http://www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org/themes/everest/gallery/resource/?id=216

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