22 Climbers Reach Top of Mt. Everest

Taking advantage of sunny skies and no wind, two Americans and 20 other climbers from four expeditions reached the top of Mt. Everest, the world’s highest mountain. Along with Edmund Viesturs of Seattle and David Carter of Indianapolis was a team from Malaysia, the first from that country to climb Everest. Tashi Wangchuk Norkay Tenzing--the grandson of Tenzing Norkay, who climbed Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in the mountain’s first conquest in 1953--was among 13 Sherpa guides accompanying the party to the 29,028-foot summit.