http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest
* 1921 The first British expedition explores the access over the
Rongbuk glacier.
* 1922 Seven Sherpa climbers are killed in an avalanche becoming
the first reported deaths on Everest.
* 1922 The second British expedition reaches 8321 meters.
* 1924 The third British expedition reaches 8500 meters. On June
6, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine ascend to attempt to reach the
summit but are lost after cloud closes in. An eyewitness claims seeing
them near the summit.
* 1933 Lady Houston funds formation of aeroplanes to fly over
summit to deploy the British Union Jack flag.
* 1934 Maurice Wilson (British) dies on attempting to climb alone.
* 1950 Nepal opens its borders to foreigners.
* 1952 A Swiss expedition, including Sherpa Tenzing Norgay gives
up from exhaustion, 200 meters short of the summit.
* 1953 The summit was first reached at 11:30 am on May 29 by the
New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay from Nepal
climbing the South Col Route.
* 1960 On May 25, a Chinese team makes the first summit via the North Ridge.
* 1963 First crossing by a United States expedition, starting from
the west and descending over the south-west.
* 1965 On May 20, Nawang Gombu Sherpa becomes the first person to
reach the summit of Everest twice.
* 1975 On May 16, Junko Tabei of Japan is the first woman on the crest.
* 1975 On May 27, a Tibetan woman, Phantog, becomes the first
woman to reach the summit from the Tibetan side.
* 1978 Reinhold Messner (South Tyrol, Italy) and Peter Habeler
(Austria) reach the crest without oxygen tanks.
* 1980 First winter expedition by a team from Poland.
* 1980 Reinhold Messner of South Tyrol, Italy, first man to climb
Everest alone and without oxygen tanks.
* 1982 On October 5, Laurie Skreslet becomes the first Canadian to
reach the summit.
* 1988 Jean-Marc Boivin of France starts with a paraglider from
the mountaintop.
* 1993 90 alpinists in the autumn alone, the commercial
"Everest-climbing" starts.
* 1993 Ramon Blanco of Spain became the oldest person to reach the
summit aged 60 years, 160 days (record beat in 2001).
* 1996 Hans Kammerlander of South Tyrol, Italy climbs the mountain
from the north side in 16 hours and 45 minutes and returns on skis.
* 1996 Göran Kropp of Sweden becomes first person to ride his
bicycle all the way from his home in Sweden to the mountain, scale it
alone without the use of oxygen tanks, and bicycle all the way back.
* 1998 Edward Grylls of the United Kingdom is the youngest person
to reach the summit aged 23 years old.
* 1998 Tom Whittaker is the first disabled climber to make it to the summit.
* 1999 Sherpa Babu Chiri Sherpa of Nepal stays for 21 hours on the mountaintop.
* 2001 On May 24 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the
youngest person to climb Everest.
* 2001 On May 25, 32-year old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder,
Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit.
* 2001 On the same day 64-year old Sherman Bull, of New Canaan,
Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit.
* 2003 On May 21, 21-year old Jess Roskelley, of Spokane,
Washington, becomes the youngest American to summit Everest, via the
South Col Route.
* 2003 On May 22, 23-year old Ben Clark, of Clarksville,
Tennessee, becomes the second youngest American to summit Everest, via
the North-Northeast Ridge Route.
* 2003 Yuichiro Miura becomes the oldest person to reach the
summit of Everest. He was aged 70 years and 222 days when he got to
the summit (on May 22).
* 2003 25-year-old Nepalese Sherpa, Pemba Dorjie Sherpa, makes the
world's fastest ever ascent, in 12 hours 45 minutes on May 23.
* 2003 Only three days later, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu breaks this record
with 10 hours 56 minutes. After a short dispute with Dorije the
tourism ministry confirms Gelu's record in July. [2]
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3734931.stm)
* 2004 Pemba Dorjie Sherpa smashes his own record, this time
ascending the mountain in a mere 8 hours 10 minutes on May 21. [3]
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3734931.stm)
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