Raymond Lambert
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Raymond Lambert is a Swiss mountain climber, who with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached an altitude of 8611 metres (just 237 metres from the summit) of Mount Everest in May 1952. By that time it was the highest point that a climber had ever reached. There was a second Swiss expedition in autumn 1952, but a party including Lambert and Tenzing was forced to turn back at a slightly lower point. The following year later Tenzing returned with Edmund Hillary to reach the summit on May 29 1953.