It was on this date in 1953 that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay celebrated Bob Hope's fiftieth birthday by climbing Mount Everest.
On a related matter: the world's highest mountain rises 29,035 feet (Under the metric system that converts to, um, a whole big bunch of meters) above sea level. If global warming progresses as projected, and ocean levels continue to rise, does that mean that Mount Everest will get shorter?
Thursday, May 29, 2003
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