NEPAL: SIR EDMUND HILLARY ONE OF THE FIRST MEN TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST ARRIVES FOR FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Record ID: 647293

  • Title: NEPAL: SIR EDMUND HILLARY ONE OF THE FIRST MEN TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST ARRIVES FOR FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
  • Date: 24th May 2003
  • Summary: (W4) KATHMANDU, NEPAL (MAY 23, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SMV KATHMANDU AIRPORT/WELCOME BANNER 0.05 2. SCU PEOPLE WAITING TO WELCOME SIR EDMUND HILLARY/SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 0.13 3. SCU HILLARY AND HIS WIFE LADY JUNE HILLARY (3 SHOTS) 0.33 4. MV MEDIA SURROUNDING HILLARY AND HIS WIFE; SCU HILLARY; SV MEDIA (4 SHOTS) 0.46 5. MV HILLARY BEING GIVEN GARLANDS AND A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS; MV HILLARY GETTING INTO CAR; SLV CAR DRIVING AWAY (4 SHOTS) 1.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
  • Country: Nepal
  • Reuters ID: LVADMF6FP2QF9WJ4QHWR222YJYDB
  • Story Text: Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first two men to climb
    Mount Everest, has arrived in Nepal for the fiftieth
    anniversary celebration of that event.

    New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and his wife Lady June
    Hillary arrived at Kathmandu's International Airport on Friday
    (May 23, 2003) ahead of the anniversary of his ascent to the
    summit of Everest with sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

    Hillary and his wife were surrounded by a crowd of
    journalists as they were led to a waiting car to take them to
    a private residence.

    Hillary is scheduled to join a group of sherpa friends at
    the British Embassy in Kathmandu to celebrate the fiftieth
    anniversary of his climb on May 29.

    Nepal's Tenzing Norgay, who conquered the world's highest
    mountain with Hillary, died in 1986.

    The success of Hillary and Norgay marked the beginning of
    tourism development in Nepal, home to eight of the world's
    fourteen tallest mountains.

    Nepal has invited every living mountaineer who climbed
    Mount Everest after Hillary's 1953 expedition to attend
    celebrations on May 29.

    Over 1,100 people have reached the summit of Everest
    successfully.

    At least 188 climbers have perished during the attempt.


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