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The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953.^[1]

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

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Alfred Gregory

Alfred Gregory FBIPP, FRPS (Hon) (12 February 1913 – 9 February 2010) was a British mountaineer, explorer and professional photographer.

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AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.

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Alpine Club (UK)

The Alpine Club was founded in London on 22 December 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club.

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American Geographical Society

The American Geographical Society (AGS) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City.

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Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China

Tibet came under the control of People's Republic of China (PRC) after the Government of Tibet signed the Seventeen Point Agreement which the 14th Dalai Lama ratified on 24 October 1951, but later repudiated on the grounds that he had rendered his approval for the agreement under duress.

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Antrum

This is a disambiguation page for the biological term.

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Apiary

An apiary (also known as a bee yard) is a location where beehives of honey bees are kept.

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Baseline StudioSystems

Studio System by Gracenote, formerly known as Baseline StudioSystems, is an American e-commerce company.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.

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Camera operator

A camera operator, or depending on the context cameraman or camerawoman, is a professional operator of a film camera or video camera as part of a film crew.

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Capel Curig

Capel Curig (meaning "Curig's Chapel") is a village and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales.

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Charles Evans (mountaineer)

Sir Robert Charles Evans (19 October 1918 – 5 December 1995) was a British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and Charles Evans (mountaineer) are Edmund Hillary.

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Charles Wylie (British Army officer)

Charles Geoffrey Wylie OBE (24 December 1919 – 18 July 2007) was a British Army lieutenant colonel who served with 10th Gurkha Rifles and was the organising secretary to the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition.

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Chinese Communist Revolution

The Chinese Communist Revolution was a social and political revolution that culminated in the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.

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Clinton Thomas Dent

Clinton Thomas Dent FRCS (7 December 1850 – 26 August 1912) was an English surgeon, author and mountaineer.

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Colonel (United Kingdom)

Colonel (Col) is a rank of the British Army and Royal Marines, ranking below brigadier, and above lieutenant colonel.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Coronation of Elizabeth II

The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and coronation of Elizabeth II are 1953 in the United Kingdom.

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Cryptography

Cryptography, or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

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Cullum Geographical Medal

The Cullum Geographical Medal is one of the oldest awards of the American Geographical Society.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.

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Durham University

Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837.

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Eric Shipton

Eric Earle Shipton, CBE (1 August 1907 – 28 March 1977), was an English Himalayan mountaineer.

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Everest base camps

There are two base camps on Mount Everest, on opposite sides of the mountains: South Base Camp is in Nepal at an altitude of, while North Base Camp is in Tibet at.

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First ascent

In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books), is the first successful documented climb to the top of a mountain or the top of a particular climbing route.

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George Band

George Christopher Band (2 February 1929 – 26 August 2011) was an English mountaineer.

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George Lowe (mountaineer)

Wallace George Lowe (15 January 1924 – 20 March 2013), known as George Lowe, was a New Zealand-born mountaineer, explorer, film director and educator. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and George Lowe (mountaineer) are Edmund Hillary.

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George Mallory

George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s.

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George Medal

The George Medal (GM), instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI,British Gallantry Medals (Abbott and Tamplin), p. 138 is a decoration of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, awarded for gallantry, typically by civilians, or in circumstances where military honours are not appropriate.

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Glyderau

The Glyderau (a Welsh plural form, also known in English as the Glyders) are a mountain group in Snowdonia, North Wales.

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Golden age of alpinism

The golden age of alpinism was the decade in mountaineering between Alfred Wills's ascent of the Wetterhorn in 1854 and Edward Whymper's ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which many major peaks in the Alps saw their first ascents.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Griffith Pugh

Lewis Griffith Cresswell Evans Pugh (29 October 1909 – 22 December 1994), generally known as Griffith Pugh, was a British physiologist and mountaineer.

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High altitude breathing apparatus

High altitude breathing apparatus is a breathing apparatus which allows a person to breathe more effectively at an altitude where the partial pressure of oxygen in the ambient atmospheric air is insufficient for the task or to sustain consciousness or human life over the long or short term.

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Hillary Step

The Hillary Step was a nearly vertical rock face with a height of around located near the summit of Mount Everest, about above sea level. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and Hillary Step are Edmund Hillary.

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Hubbard Medal

The Hubbard Medal is awarded by the National Geographic Society for distinction in exploration, discovery, and research.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Jan Morris

Catharine Jan MorrisJan Morris, Paul Clements, University of Wales Press, 2008, p. 7 (born James Humphry Morris; 2 October 192620 November 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.

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Jim Perrin

Jim Perrin (born 30 March 1947), is an English rock climber and travel writer.

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John Hunt, Baron Hunt

Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt, (22 June 1910 – 7 November 1998) was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest.

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Joint Himalayan Committee

The Mount Everest Committee was a body formed by the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society to co-ordinate and finance the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest and all subsequent British expeditions to climb the mountain until 1947.

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Kathmandu

Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and approximately 4 million people in its urban agglomeration.

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Khumbu Icefall

The Khumbu Icefall is located at the head of the Khumbu Glacier and the foot of the Western Cwm.

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Knight Bachelor

The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Kukri

The kukri or khukuri (खुकुरी) is a type of short sword with a distinct recurve in its blade that originated in the Indian subcontinent.

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Laurence P. Kirwan

Sir Archibald Laurence Patrick Kirwan KCMG (13 May 1907 – 16 April 1999) was a British archaeologist and geographer who made major contributions to the study of ancient Egypt, Nubia, East Africa and South Arabia.

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List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain at and thus a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers.

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List of recipients of the Founder's Medal

The Founder's Medal is a medal awarded annually by the Royal Geographical Society, upon approval of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, to individuals for "the encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery".

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Michael Ward (mountaineer)

Michael Phelps Ward, CBE (26 March 1925 – 7 October 2005) was an English surgeon and an expedition doctor on the 1953 first ascent of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary.

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Mike Westmacott

Michael Horatio Westmacott (12 April 1925, Babbacombe, Torquay, Devon – 20 June 2012, Grange-over-sands, Cumbria) was a prominent British mountaineer.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Namche Bazaar

Namche Bazaar (also Namche Bazar, Nemche Bazaar or Namche Baza; नाम्चे बजार) is a town (formally Namche Village Development Committee) in Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality in Solukhumbu District of Koshi Province in northeastern Nepal.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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New Year Honours

The New Year Honours is a part of the British honours system, with New Year's Day, 1 January, being marked by naming new members of orders of chivalry and recipients of other official honours.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pen-y-Gwryd

Pen-y-Gwryd is a pass at the head of Nantygwryd and Nant Cynnyd rivers close to the foot of Snowdon in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.

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Porter (carrier)

A porter, also called a bearer, is a person who carries objects or cargo for others.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal

The Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (Médaille du couronnement de la Reine Élizabeth II) is a commemorative medal instituted to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953.

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Radio Expeditions

The Radio Expeditions series was a joint production of National Public Radio and the National Geographic Society.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Society for Asian Affairs

The Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) is a learned society based in London (United Kingdom).

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Rupee

Rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, Burma, German East Africa (as Rupie/Rupien), and Tibet.

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Sardar

Sardar, also spelled as Sardaar(سردار,, 'commander', literally 'headmaster'), is a title of royalty and nobility that was originally used to denote princes, noblemen, chiefs, kings and other aristocrats.

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Schoolmaster

A schoolmaster, or simply master, is a male school teacher.

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Sherpa people

The Sherpas (shar pa) are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibetan Autonomous Region.

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Snowdon

Snowdon, or italic, is a mountain in the Snowdonia region of North Wales.

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Snowdonia

Snowdonia, or Eryri, is a mountainous region and national park in North Wales.

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South Col

The South Col is a col between Mount Everest and Lhotse, the highest and fourth-highest mountains in the world, respectively.

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Stephen Venables

Stephen Venables (born 2 May 1954) is a British mountaineer and writer, and is a past president of the South Georgia Association and of the Alpine Club.

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Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

The Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the military headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO) that commands all NATO operations worldwide.

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Tengboche

Tengboche (or Thyangboche) is a village in Khumbu Pasanglhamu rural municipality in the Khumbu subregion of Province No. 1 in Nepal, located at.

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay (tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and Tenzing Norgay are Edmund Hillary.

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The Conquest of Everest

The Conquest of Everest is a 1953 British Technicolor documentary film directed by George Lowe about various expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The London Gazette

The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Tilbury

Tilbury is a port town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England.

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Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,849 metres (29,031.7 ft) above sea level. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions are mount Everest expeditions.

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Tom Bourdillon

Thomas Duncan Bourdillon (16 March 1924 – 29 July 1956) was an English mountaineer and member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition which made the first ascent of Mount Everest.

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Tom Stobart

Thomas Ralph Stobart OBE (10 March 1914 – 28 November 1980) was a British cameraman, film-maker and author, notable for having shot The Conquest of Everest, the official film of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition.

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Travel agency

A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism-related services to the general public on behalf of accommodation or travel suppliers to offer different kinds of travelling packages for each destination.

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University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated Aberd. in post-nominals; Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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University of London

The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Wilfrid Noyce

Cuthbert Wilfrid Francis Noyce (31 December 1917 – 24 July 1962) (usually known as Wilfrid Noyce (often misspelt as 'Wilfred'), some sources give third forename as Frank) was an English mountaineer and author.

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10 Downing Street

10 Downing Street in London is the official residence and office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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1924 British Mount Everest expedition

The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was—after the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition—the 2nd expedition with the goal of achieving the first ascent of Mount Everest. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and 1924 British Mount Everest expedition are expeditions from the United Kingdom and mount Everest expeditions.

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1951 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition

The 1951 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition ran between 27 August 1951 and 21 November 1951 with Eric Shipton as leader. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and 1951 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition are Edmund Hillary, expeditions from the United Kingdom, mount Everest expeditions and Nepal–United Kingdom relations.

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1952 British Cho Oyu expedition

The 1952 British expedition to Cho Oyu the Turquoise Goddess was organized by the Joint Himalayan Committee. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and 1952 British Cho Oyu expedition are expeditions from the United Kingdom.

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1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition

The 1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition was an attempt to summit Mount Everest. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and 1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition are mount Everest expeditions and Tenzing Norgay.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_British_Mount_Everest_expedition

Also known as 1953 British Everest Expedition, 1953 Everest expedition, 1953 Mount Everest expedition, British Mount Everest Expedition 1953.

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See also

1953 in Nepal

1953 in science

1953 in the United Kingdom

Edmund Hillary

Mount Everest expeditions

Nepal–United Kingdom relations

Science and technology in Nepal

Tenzing Norgay

References