Then and now: 70 years of Everest ...Middle East

KATHMANDU: Seventy years ago, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first humans to summit Everest on May 29, 1953. The British expedition made the two men household names around the world and changed mountaineering forever.Hundreds now climb the 8,849m peak every year, fuelling concerns of overcrowding and pollution on the mountain. We look at the evolution of the Everest phenomenon.What is the mountain called?Initially known only to British mapmakers as Peak XV, the mountain was identified as the world’s highest point in the 1850s and renamed in 1865 after Sir George Everest, a former surveyor-general of India. On the border of Nepal and China and climbab

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