THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Everest summit – 1953

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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Reach Everest Summit

We knocked the bastard off': rare photographs of Edmund Hillary's Everest expedition | World news | The Guardian

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Everest summit – 1953

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At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth. The two, part of a British expedition, made their final assault on the summit after spending a fitful night at 27,900 feet. News of their achievement broke around the world on June 2, the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, and Britons hailed it as a good omen for their country’s future.

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SHE SHOULD HAVE EATEN SOME BACON

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Maria Strydom dies on Mount Everest, tackled trek ‘to prove that vegans can do anything’

In this Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, file photo, international trekkers pass through a glacier at the Mount Everest base camp, Nepal. An Indian climber has died while being helped down Mount Everest, just hours after a Dutch and an Australian climber died near the peak. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, File)

– The Washington Times – Monday, May 23, 2016

An Australian woman who intended to prove that “vegans can do anything and more” died Friday while attempting to scale Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth.

Maria Strydom, a 34-year-old Monash Business School finance lecturer, made it roughly 400 meters shy of the summit when she began suffering from altitude sickness and died while attempting to descend.

“She could not resist any more her weakness, and she stopped breathing right there,” said Furtengi Sherpa, the operational manager of Seven Summit Treks.

Strydom previously made it to the top of some of the tallest mountains in the world, including Denali and Kilimanjaro, and she was determined to scale the seven highest summits on Earth, of which Everest ranks first.

In an interview published on March 2 on the Monash Business School website, Strydom said that she and her husband, who both are accomplished climbers who consume neither meat nor dairy, together set their sights on Everest after doubts were raised by skeptics due to possible iron and protein deficiencies caused by their diets.

“It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak,” she told the website. “By climbing the seven summits, we want to prove that vegans can do anything and more.”