29 May 1953 May 28, 2013 Author: Staff Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." Christopher Morley — Click here for more from Christopher Morley Related posts: 29 May 1953 13 January 1953 26 July 1953 19 January 1953 Categories: History Tags: 1953, 29 May