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| 1951 | Hillary, Edmund Percival |  |
| Everest Zealand Hillary is part of a British reconnaissance expedition to Everest led by Eric Shipton before joining the successful British attempt of 1953 |
| 1953 | Hillary, Edmund Percival | |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Edmund Hillary & fellow NewZealander George Lowe (lifelong friend and first Chairman of The Himalayan Trust UK) join Lord Hunt's British Expedition to Mount Everest |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay become the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, they are part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Hillary takes Tenzing's photo, Tenzing leaves chocolates in the snow as an offering, and Hillary leaves a cross, because Tenzing did not know how to use a camera, there are no pictures of Hillary |
| 29th May Everest Zealand In the dark of the morning of 29th May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay set off set off from Camp IX at 27,900', then past the South Summit, the highest point so far reached, and pushed on towards the summit at 29,028 |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Joins a trip led by the British climber Sir John Hunt up the southwest ridge, by the latter stages, all but two climbers were defeated by exhaustion, and only Sir Edmund and Norgay were able to continue to the summit |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Looks for signs of George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine who had disappeared in 1924 in a similar attempt to conquer Everest, but find nothing |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Returning to base camp, Hillary had irreverently remarks, "We knocked the bastard off" |
| 29th May Everest Zealand The crucial move of the last part of the ascent is the 40-foot rock face later named the "Hillary Step" |
| 1953 | Lowe, George | |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Edmund Hillary & fellow NewZealander George Lowe (lifelong friend and first Chairman of The Himalayan Trust UK) join Lord Hunt's British Expedition to Mount Everest |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Hillary's first words to his friend George Lowe, who set out to meet him from the South Col, were characteristically low key NewZealand slang - "Well, we knocked the bastard off" |
