<span style="color: #222222;">International Everest Day 2021 is being celebrated today. This day is observed in the memory of the first summit of Mount Everest by New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa that took place on 29th of May 1953.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">History was created on this day 68 years ago when both of them climbed Mount Everest, 29,029 feet above sea level.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">They were the first humans to scale the height of Mount Everest. To commemorate their achievement, in the year 2008, Nepal decided to celebrate International Everest Day every year on 29th of May.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Since then, every year, Mount Everest Day is celebrated with processions, memorial and special events in Kathmandu, Nepal and the Everest region.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">They were part of a British expedition. Mr Norgay and Mr Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest at 11.30 A.M. on 29th May,1953, but the world came to know of their achievement only on 2nd of June, the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The day was observed for the first time in 2008, the year Edmund Hillary died.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mount Everest attracts climbers, including highly experienced mountaineers, every year from across the globe.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The British named it Mount Everest after Sir George Everest, a 19th-century British surveyor of South Asia.</span><br />''  <br />