Picture from Encarta
Climbing Mount Everest Climbing Mount Everest
Tenzing Norgay on the Everest Summit Tenzing Norgay on the Everest Summit
Simla Simla

Tenzing Norgay on the Everest Summit

Tenzing Norgay on the Everest Summit
This photograph, taken by Edmund Hillary, shows Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Mount Everest. The two men became the first people to scale the summit of the mountain, the highest in the world, on May 29, 1953.
Archive Photos
Appears in these articles:
Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival; Tenzing Norgay; Everest, Mount; Himalayas
* Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers. Join Now
Advertisement

Englishtown: Learn English online
Upgrade your Encarta experience
Encarta RSS Feeds
© 2008 Microsoft