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Team India does nation proud on Mt Everest

In May 1959, six years after Mt Everest had been first climbed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, India sent its first expedition to Mt Everest. But the Indian Army team led by Brigadier Gyan Singh was defeated 'by the fury of elemental forces'.3:02 PM on May 21