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.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climb Everest - 1953 archive video. Archive newsreel footage reports how New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali climber Tenzing Norgay became the first people to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.