The World - News from May 26, 1989
British and Australian mountaineers have reached the summit of Mt. Everest, Nepal’s Tourism Ministry announced. Adrian Burgess, a 40-year-old mountain guide and British citizen who now lives in Boulder, Colo., and Australian Roderick Mackenzie, 27, reached the summit by the southeast ridge route, the ministry said. The two men, along with their two Sherpa guides, brought to 246 the number of people who have stood at the highest point on Earth, 29,028 feet above sea level. The four men left the American Snowbird Everest Expedition camp, at about 26,250 feet, and with the aid of bottled oxygen were on top of the world seven hours later.
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