What were the standout climbs?
In 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine made the first serious attempt. It is still unknown if they made the summit, but both died on the mountain. In 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary make the first successful summit. In 1975, Japanese Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit the hill. Austrian Peter Habeler and Italian Reinhold Messner were the first climbers to summit Everest without bottled oxygen. 1996 was probably the most controversial year with fifteen climbers dying on the mountain thus spawning worldwide debate and interest in alpine mountaineering.
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