The conquest of Everest

The original account of the conquest of Everest, with contributions by John Hunt and Edmund Hillary. When Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on 29 May 1953, they caught the world's imagination in a way subsequently unmatched until humans walked on the Moon. Brigader Sir John Hunt C.B.E., D.S.O led the 1953 British expedition that enabled Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to conquer Mount Everest. He died at 88, at his home in Henley-on-Thames.