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Mount Everest

Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas

9 dated entries naming Mount Everest, drawn from 9 separate years between 1856 CE and 2001 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1856The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India officially gives 'Peak XV' (later to be named Mount Everest) the height of 29002 ft m. 'Peak IX' (Kangchenjunga), previously thought to be the world's highest, is confirmed as 28156 ft m.source

20th century

  • 1924June 8 – British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M. They are never seen alive again.source
  • 1933April 3 – The first flight over Mount Everest is made by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.source
  • 1953May 29 – 1953 British Mount Everest expedition: Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.source
  • 1973May 5 – Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.source
  • 1975May 16 – Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.source
  • 1984October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest.source
  • 1996May 10 – 1996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving eight people dead. By the end of the month, at least four other climbers die in the worst season of fatalities on the mountain to date.source

21st century

  • 2001May 24 – Sherpa Temba Tsheri, 15, becomes the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.source

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