CLASS 9
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Detailed explanation-1: -George Mallory (June 18, 1886 – June 8, 1924) was an English mountaineer famous for participating in the three initial expeditions to Mt. Everest (8, 849 meters), including a 1922 expedition that saw Mallory and his companions become the first humans to climb above 8, 000 meters (26, 247 feet).
Detailed explanation-2: -India became the fourth country to scale Mount Everest. It was on 20 May 1965 that Lt Col Avatar. S. Cheema, Gurdial Singh, and Nawang Gombu Sherpa climbed the peak and became the first Indian to achieve this feat.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1975, Junko managed to climb the 8848-metre-high Mount Everest with an all-female team. In 1992, 17 years after this phenomenal achievement, she literally scaled the heights by once again becoming the first woman to climb the highest mountains on each of the 7 continents (Seven Summits).
Detailed explanation-4: -At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29, 035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.