,,, oh, I thought you knew for certain what you were talking about. Within the last year this was revisited as there has been a lot of doubt since 1953. Allow me to clarify the findings for you. It turns out the Brits weren't the first, so Ed can still stay proudly on our $NZ5 notes.
Regards
Just so's we both know what I was talking about: New Zealand beekeeper and mountain climber, Ed Hilary, a member of the British Expedition led by [The, later, Lord] Hunt -- and ably assisted by the sherpa, Tensing, was the firdt man to conquer Mount Everest!
Much later, revisionist American and eurotrash wanna be do-gooders claimed that, in fact Tensing was the first to climb Everest, this despite that Tensing and his ilk -- until Hunt and Hilary and the boys came by and kicked their arses into gear -- had spent the previous several thousand years squatting around Everest's base, without either walking -- or even looking -- up.
Good ones, my Friend
Brian