Editing Mount Everest (section)

===First successful ascent by Tenzing and Hillary, 1953===
{{Main|1953 British Mount Everest expedition}}
[[File:Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.jpg|thumb|[[Edmund Hillary]] and [[Tenzing Norgay]]]]

In 1953, a ninth British expedition, led by [[John Hunt, Baron Hunt|John Hunt]], returned to Nepal. Hunt selected two climbing pairs to attempt to reach the summit. The first pair, [[Tom Bourdillon]] and [[Charles Evans (mountaineer)|Charles Evans]], came within {{convert|100|m|ft|abbr=on}} of the summit on 26 May 1953, but turned back after running into oxygen problems. As planned, their work in route finding and breaking trail and their oxygen caches were of great aid to the following pair. Two days later, the expedition made its second assault on the summit with the second climbing pair: the New Zealander [[Edmund Hillary]] and [[Tenzing Norgay]], a Nepali [[Sherpa people|Sherpa]] climber. They reached the summit at 11:30{{nbsp}}am local time on 29 May 1953 via the South Col route. At the time, both acknowledged it as a team effort by the whole expedition, but Tenzing revealed a few years later that Hillary had put his foot on the summit first.<ref name="Ullman" /> They paused at the summit to take photographs and buried a few sweets and a small cross in the snow before descending.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}