EXPEDITIONS · 1953
Mount Everest, Nepal–China
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay spent about 15 minutes on the summit, 8,849 metres above sea level. The news reached London on the morning of Elizabeth II’s coronation.
The story, as a puzzle
The top of the world.
At 11:30 on 29 May 1953, a New Zealand beekeeper and a Sherpa climber stood on the highest point on Earth. Pin the summit.
Where it is
Think you'd have found it on the map?
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