Sir Edmund Hillary

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Jamling Sherpa, son of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa who scaled Mount Everest in 1953 along with Edmund Hillary, lights butter lamps to offer prayers in front of a portrait of Hillary and Tenzing, in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. Friends and colleagues of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to stand atop the world's highest mountain, remembered him Friday.

Author: CBS News Staff

Credit: AP Photo/Binod Joshi