Sir Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first two people to summit Mount Everest in 1953. It was only a few years earlier Federation Peak was summitted for the first time ...
Lachenal was one of the first two mountaineers in history to summit an 8,000m peak - Annapurna I in 1950 ... three years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scaled Mt.