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1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time
1993 Maurice Dolbier, U.S. actor and writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81 1992 1st Belgian woman, Ingrid Baeyens, to ascend Mount Everest 1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest top 1986 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71 1980 Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone 1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mount Everest 1975 Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest 1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit 1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mount Everest 1968 Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77 1963 1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest 1944 Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber, Mount Everest 1942 Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78 1941 Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest 1939 Junko Tabei, Japan, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest 1933 1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale 1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest 1929 Jim Whittacker, mountain climber, 1st American to climb Mount Everest 1924 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit 1919 Edmund Hillary, born in Auckland, New Zealand, mountaineer, explorer, first climber to summit Mount Everest 1890 Barbara Everest, born in London, England, actress, Fatal Witness, Inquest 1864 Eleanor Everest Freer, composer |
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