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What makes Tasmania's Federation Peak so challenging for climbers?
Sir Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first two people to summit Mount Everest in 1953. It was only a few years earlier Federation Peak was summitted for the first time ...
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Hillary On Everest: ‘It’s More About The First Chap To Go Up Backwards’
When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the tale - they doubted that the world's highest peak would ...
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Remembering The First Climbers to Summit an 8,000-meter Peak
Lachenal was one of the first two mountaineers in history to summit an 8,000m peak - Annapurna I in 1950 ... three years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scaled Mt.