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The first Everest summit came in 1953
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top on 29 May 1953. They stayed about 15 minutes — the air up there holds a third of the oxygen at sea level.
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The first dive to the deepest sea took 5 hours
In 1960 the bathyscaphe Trieste carried two men nearly 11 km down into the Mariana Trench. The descent took about five hours; they stayed only 20 minutes.