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When did Sir Edmund Hillary reach the summit of Mount Everest?
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As a member of John Hunt’s Everest expedition, Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay. He was knighted for this feat. Much later, he established a charity, the Himalayan Trust, for the Sherpa people of Nepal.