Transmission of Neurosyphilis from Person to Person. Neurosyphilis is considered infectious but is not transmitted from person to person. Generally, a disease like this is caused by an infectious agent and not spread between people.
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay completed the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest, which stands 29,035 feet above sea level.
Kanchenjunga - 1955 (Nobody is permitted to climb to the summit of Kanchenjunga since it is a holy mountain. The closest one can get is about 100m from the summit). Lhotse - 1956 Makalu - 1958 Cho Oyu - 1954. Annapurna was the first of the 8000m peaks summited in 1950 by a French team led by Maurice Herzog.