May 29 is known as Everest Day, an occasion that marks the first-ever Everest summit as accomplished by Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand mountaineer, and Tenzig Norgay, the sherpa, or mountain guide, on May 29, 1953. Here, Hillary's daughter, Sarah Hillary, and a Nepalese official decorate statues of the two pioneers at the 2019 ceremony in Kathmandu.