He & Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest May 29, 1953

Gwyneth Paltrow starred in the 1996 adaptation of this Jane Austen novel H.A. Largelamb was an anagrammatic pen name used by this inventor for his articles in National Geographic Harpsichordist Robert Veyron-Lacroix was a longtime musical partner of this celebrated flutist Harvard Lampoon alumnus, by 1937 he owned 25 daily newspapers & a California castle He became General of the Army in 1944 & in 1947 became U.S. Secretary of State He became the drummer for Genesis in 1970; he didn't become lead singer until after Peter Gabriel left in 1975 He burned the second volume of his novel Dead Souls before dying on the verge of madness in 1852 He called his third collection of short stories The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million