The first men to fly over Mount Everest did so in an unpressurized biplane
 

The first men to fly over Mount Everest did so in an unpressurized biplane
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April 3, 1933

The two planes fly towards Lhotse and Everest at 32,000 feet.

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Though the 29,029-foot-high summit of Mount Everest was first conquered on foot by Tenzing **rway and Edmund Hillary in 1953, it was conquered by air two decades earlier.

In April 1933, RAF squadron leader Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, otherwise k**wn as Lord Clydesdale, led an ambitious attempt to fly over the summit of the world’s tallest mountain.

With the financial backing of philanthropist Lady Houston, the Houston Everest Expedition took off from an airstrip near Purnea, India at 8:25 a.m. on April 3, 1933. Read more...

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