tenzing norgay was the first person to reach the top of mount everest.
tenzing norgay was the first person to reach the top of mount everest.
who is the first person to reach the top of mount everest?
tenzing norgay
1952 swiss mount everest expedition









































led by edouard wyss-dunant, the 1952 swiss mount everest expedition saw raymond lambert and sherpa tenzing norgay reach a height of about on the southeast ridge, setting a new climbing altitude record, opening up a new route to mount everest and paving the way for further successes by other expeditions.









































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1952 swiss mount everest expedition
in 2016 the first climbers from sri lanka, myanmar, and tunisia reached the summit of mount everest. only two other people from north africa have summited everest, one from algeria and the other from morocco. the youngest australian woman to summit mount everest was alyssa azar. she returned to australia safely, but a bittersweet victory for australia after the loss of another australian woman who was also trying to summit that may with her husband. the youngest japanese woman also summited (and returned alive) at the age of 19. another woman record-breaker in 2016 was the first woman from thailand to summit mount everest, napassaporn chumnarnsit, who was granted an audience with the prime minister of thailand for her achievement. the first person with cystic fibrosis also summited mount everest on his third try. also, a 61-year-old summited with two artificial knees. he had been trying for several years and had lost his nepali friend sherpa nawang tenzing in the 2015 earthquakes. he was not alone in being grief-stricken, as many climbers connected with the everest mountaineering community lost climbing buddies in two years of disasters. one who narrowly survived the disasters himself climbed this year to bring attention to the disease lewy body dementia (dlb), which had affected his father.
mount everest in 2016