Hillary Step
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The Hillary Step was a 40-foot vertical rock face that sat 8,790 metres above sea level on the southeast ridge of Mount Everest. Some 30 metres vertically below the mountain's 8,849-metre summit, it l
An uncropped view of the previous picture, looking up along the southern ridge line. The face of the snow-covered step is visible with two climbers on it. The face in shadow on the left is the South-West face, and in the light to the right is the top of the East / Kangshung face.
In this pre-2015 view of Mount Everest seen from the west, the high point is the summit; to its the right, the southeast ridge slopes down to the Hillary Step, then rises up to the South Summit.
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Tenzing Norgay
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Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached th
Hillary Step
…formidable-looking 12 m (40 ft) rock step two-thirds of the way up. The feature was named the Hillary Step after mountainer Sir Edmund Hillary, who led Sherpa Tenzing Norgay up a gap between the rock face and the snow to became the first pair to climb it during their 1953 ascent of Mount Everest. Positioned just below the…
Norgay in 1967
Statue of Norgay at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
Mount Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary greets Tenzing Norgay, c. 1971.