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1953
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5.29.1953
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
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1975
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5.16.1975
Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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1978
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5.8.1978
First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
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10.16.1978
Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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1996
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5.10.1996
A "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
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5.11.1996
The 1996 Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest .
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2001
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5.24.2001
Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
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5.25.2001
32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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