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The british government initiated the great trigonometric topography project
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The First British Expedition organized and funded by the newly formed Mount Everest Committee, led by Colonel Charles Howard-Bury, with Harold Raeburn as mountaineering leader in the company of George Mallory, Guy Bullock and Edward Oliver Wheeler
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Charles Granville Bruce and Edward Lisle Strutt were the first humans to climb above 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) on a mountain.
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Was led by Brigadier-General Charles Bruce, althought time gave up its leadership to Edward Norton.
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The prolific British mountaineering explorer Bill Tilman was appointed leader of the 1938 Everest expedition which attempted the ascent via the North Col but making an attempt from the west, from the main Rongbuk Glacier, as well as from the East Rongbuk.
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The summit was eventually reached at 11:30 a.m. local time on May 29, 1953 by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali, climbing the South Col route.
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On May 23, Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet reached the summit of Everest followed by Dölf Reist and Hansruedi von Gunten on May 24.
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A team of climbers from china, claims have been who went up the summit trought North Ridge.
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During the entire season, twelve people died trying to reach the top.
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February 17, First winter ascent by Andrzej Zawada's team from Poland: Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki.
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The government of Nepal announces the cancellation of all climbing permits for Mount Everest and all other peaks in the country due to concerns about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
