The King has met the children of the men who became the first climbers to reach the summit of Everest.The occasion marked 70 years since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the 29,028ft (8,848 metres) summit on May 29 1953.First attempted in 1921, Everest had repulsed at least 10 major expeditions and two solo attempts before the 1953 British expedition finally succeeded under the military-style leadership of Lord John Hunt.
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