Bidspirit auction | The Ascent Of Everest 1953

The Ascent Of Everest 1953 Signed Ed Hillary and George Lowe Internetstamps FDC. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, he and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, which was led by John Hunt. Wallace George Lowe CNZM OBE (15 January 1924 - 20 March 2013),[1] known as George Lowe, was a New Zealand-born mountaineer, explorer, film director and educator. He was the last surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition, during which his friend Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first known people to summit the world's highest peak. Good condition Est.