Who were the first climbers known to reach the summit of Mount Everest?

The first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest were Edmund Hillary, a mountaineer from New Zealand, and the Nepali-Indian Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.12

They achieved this historic feat on May 29, 1953, as part of a British expedition led by John Hunt. After spending approximately 15 minutes at the peak, where they took photographs and left offerings, the pair began their descent. While some have speculated that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine may have reached the summit during their 1924 expedition, there is no evidence to confirm this, and Hillary and Tenzing found no signs of their presence when they reached the top.13