<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary" id="mwARc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edmund Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherpa_people" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sherpa people">Sherpa</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tenzing Norgay">Tenzing Norgay</a> become the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_British_Mount_Everest_expedition" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1953 British Mount Everest expedition">first people to reach the summit</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mount Everest">Mount Everest</a>, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.<sup about="#mwt63" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_29#cite_note-11" id="mwARw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAR0">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt60" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCGc"><a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/10/obituaries/tenzing-norkay-72-is-dead-climbed-everest-with-hillary.html" id="mwCGg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"TENZING NORKAY, 72, IS DEAD: CLIMBED EVEREST WITH HILLARY"</a>. <i id="mwCGk">The New York Times</i>. Associated Press. 10 May 1986<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCGo">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCGs">13 February</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt60" class="Z3988" id="mwCGw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=TENZING+NORKAY%2C+72%2C+IS+DEAD%3A+CLIMBED+EVEREST+WITH+HILLARY&amp;rft.date=1986-05-10&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1986%2F05%2F10%2Fobituaries%2Ftenzing-norkay-72-is-dead-climbed-everest-with-hillary.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+29"></span></span>