Kanchha Sherpa, last member of first Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

By Kevin Doyle and News Agencies

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Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering team that first reached the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, has died in Nepal at the age of 92.

Kanchha Sherpa, last member of first Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92

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