Historical place archive

Everest in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Everest in Switzerland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1952–1952

Historical events in Everest

1952

1952
Mount Everest
Raymond Lambert · Exploration and Discovery

Tenzing takes part in two Swiss expeditions led by Raymond Lambert, the first serious attempts to climb Everest from the southern Nepalese side, during which he and Lambert reached the then record height of 8,599 m (28,215 ft)

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