When a small team of explorers reached the 25,446ft summit of Mt Kamet in the Himalayas on June 21, 1931, they achieved something which had never been done before.
At that time, it was the tallest mountain to be scaled by humans.
It would be another 22 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.
image class="left" url= An explorer look out over the Himalayas in one of a set of remarkable set of images that have come to light which document a historic British expedition to climb one of the world's tallest mountains 87 years ago
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image class="left" url= Sherpas carrying drums in the Himalayas taken by photographer and botanist Frank Smythe during a trip to the summit of Mt Kamet in 1931
image class="left" url= The small team of explorers reached the 25,446ft summit of Mt Kamet in the Himalayas on June 21, [[https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-le-hoi-yen-tu-chua-ba-vang-quang-ninh-du-lich-yen-tu-tu-ha-noi.html tour chùa yên tử]] 1931, they achieved something which had never been done before
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image class="left" url= Explorers look over the stunning Himalayan landscape as they were the first to climb one of the world's tallest mountains 87 years ago
image class="left" url= Scaling the world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, become a national worldwide obsession, [[https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-le-hoi-yen-tu-chua-ba-vang-quang-ninh-du-lich-yen-tu-tu-ha-noi.html kynghidongduong.vn]] the 'space race' of the 1930s
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image class="left" url= Mt Kamet, the first peak over 25,000ft ever reached lies northwest of the world's highest summit, Mt Everest which stands at 29,030ft
<div class="art-ins mol-factbox news floatRHS" data-version="2" id="mol-b02aceb0-292e-11e8-bac1-ff7b49fb3d6d" website photos show British explorer's 1931 Himalayan expedition
