International Everest Day - May 29

1953 may 29, 11:30:00 am, The New Zealander Edmund Hillary, and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, have become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border. They reached the top of the world after a grueling climb up the southern face. 

 Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, the surveyor-general of India who was the first to produce detailed maps of the Indian subcontintent including the Himalayas.

Important timeline in 2013: 

May 17 – Ningthoujam Bidyapati Devi, 30, became the first woman from Manipur, India, to summit Mount Everest.

May 18 - Wansuk Myrthong became the first woman from Meghalaya to scale Mount Everest. 

May 18 – Raha Moharrak, 25, of Saudi Arabia, became the first Saudi woman and youngest Arab to summit Mount Everest.

May 19 – Samina Baig, 21, became the first Pakistani woman and the third Pakistani to scale Mount Everest.

May 19 - 21-year-old Indian sisters Tashi Malik and Nancy Malik became the first twin sisters to climb the Mount Everest.

May 21 - Arunima Sinha became the first female amputee to summit Mount Everest

 May 23 - 80-year-old Japanese national Yuichiro Miura set a new world record by becoming the oldest climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.