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On the Stamp
The summit of Mount Everest above snowfields and glaciers, with the words “Ascent of Mount Everest” and “Golden Jubilee” in English and Hindi.
The Ascent of Mount Everest
India Post issued this ₹15 stamp, also in a miniature sheet, on 29 May 2003, fifty years after the first ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, as the sheet records. Their climb, on 29 May 1953, was made with the British expedition of that year, the ninth to attempt the summit and the first confirmed to succeed. Everest, on the China–Nepal border in the Mahalangur Himal of the Himalayas, is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp and its sheet.
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