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Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 29th May 1953
Japanese climber Junko Tabei was the first woman to successfully summit Mount Everest on May 16, 1975.
The fastest person to climb Mount Everest is Pemba Dorje Sherpa, who reached the summit in 8 hours and 10 minutes in 2004.
There are 18 official routes to the summit of Mount Everest, but only two are commonly used: the South Col route, accessed from Nepal, and the Northeast Ridge route, accessed from Tibet.
No, Matthew Henson was not the first to climb Mount Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, were the first to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.