12,000 atop Mt. Everest in 69 years

• Nepal Infrastructure
• July 8, 2022

KATHMANDU: May 29, 2022, marks the 69th anniversary of the first ascent of Mt. Everest. On May 29, 1953, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, then a Nepali citizen, and Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, successfully scaled