May 29, 1953, Hillary and his Sherpa Tenzing were the first men to stand on top of the world. The first man to reach the summit was Edmund Hillary, later knighted by the Queen for his feat. It would take 101 years for the mountain’s summit to be climbed. Everest after the late general surveyor Sir George Everest. This measurement would later prove to be inaccurate throughout the use of modern lasers and satellite data pictures, the actual height of the mountain was determined to be 29,029 ft. The mountain was first dubbed Peak XV the first measured height of the mountain was 29,002. It was in 1852 in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India when the highest mountain in the world was discovered. The story starts out with a brief history of Mt Everest.
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