Historical Highlights for July 20

Sir Edmund Hillary was born on July 20, 1919. He would become famous for becoming the first to climb to the top of Mount Everest. Here he is in the early 1950’s. By Photographer unidentified. F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, Public Domain, https commons.wikimedia.org
Mount Everest from Kalapatthar, Nepal. By Pavel Novak, CC BY-SA 2.5, https commons.wikimedia.org

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