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

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

Kanchha Sherpa was among the 35 members of the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, atop the 29,032-foot peak on May 29, 1953.