# Everest: Just Don't Do It

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**Created:** [May 22, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-just-dont-do-it/755397 "2016-05-22T21:31:05Z")\
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> Kanchha Sherpa was among the 35 members of the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak on May 29, 1953. He was one of three Sherpas to reach the final camp before the summit with Hillary and Tenzing.

> **[Kanchha Sherpa, last surviving member of 1953 Mount Everest expedition, dies...](https://apnews.com/article/kanchha-sherpa-mount-everest-dead-nepal-a0a5ed445d41baae7ae9f6c347471666)**
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> Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the first Mount Everest expedition team, has died at 92.

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