Fill in the Blanks FF4 unit 11 Everest ExpeditionOnline version Fill in the gaps (text) by Irina Smith 1 including enough location summit give up climber heavy get close to named after explorer freezing height Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world . It is George Everest , the first person to record its and . The first people to climb to the top of Mount Everest were Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay . Tenzing was a mountain from Nepal and Hillary was an from New Zealand . They were part of a large expedition 362 porters and 20 guides . The expedition started in March 1953 . It took the team many weeks to the top of the mountain . Some of the climbers had to when their equipment didn't work and they couldn't get oxygen , but Hillary and Tenzing continued the expedition . There was snow and winds , but by 28th May , Hillary and Tenzing were near the . They slept in a tent that night . 2 youngest pull frozen solid up buried reached oldest at the top warm breathe The next morning , Hillary's boots were outside the tent ! It took two hours to melt the ice and get the boots . Hillary and Tenzing climbed the last part of the mountain . They used ice axes to themselves the icy rocks . On 29th May , they the summit . They stood on the highest point on Earth . Then Hillary took some photos and they some chocolates in the snow for future climbers . They only stayed of Everest for about 15 minutes , because it was difficult to . There isn't much oxygen at 8 , 848m ! Since then , many people have climbed Mount Everest . The person to reach the summit was Yuichiro Miura , from Japan . He was 80 years old . The person was Jordan Romero , from the USA . He was 13 .
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