| SIREDMUND | With Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, ... Hillary (3,6) |
| HILLARY | New Zealand mountaineer who became one of the two first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953 (7) |
| EDMUND | ___ Hillary (with Sherpa Tenzing) first to climb Everest in 1953 (6) |
| NEPALI | Like the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, by birth |
| NORGAY | Sherpa mountaineer born Namgyal Wangdi who, with teammate Edmund Hillary, was the first human to reach the summit of Mount Everest (6) |
| DESPACITO | 2017 chart-topping hit whose YouTube video was the first to reach 3 billion views |
| SHERPA | Tenzing Norgay, who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary, is often referred to as ... Tenzing |
| NETANYAHU | He was the first prime minister of Israel to have been born there, after its creation as a state (9) |
| LINDBERGH | He was the first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (9) |
| HANKSTRAM | He was the first coach miked during the Super Bowl |
| TENZING | Sherpa who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953 (7,6) |
| TENZINGNORGAY | Sherpa who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953 |
| MOUNTAINEER | Climber such as Maurice Herzog who, in 1950, became the first person to reach the summit of a peak over 8000m high - it was Mt Annapurna in Nepal |
| SCOTT | WWT Slimbridge founder who designed the WWF panda logo and created the IUCN red list; an Olympic sailing medallist whose father died attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole (5) |
| EVEREST | Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach its summit |
| ROBERT | Peary, credited with being the first to reach the North Pole |
| AMUNDSEN | Roald -; explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole (8) |
| TYLER | He was the first vice president to become president upon the death of the chief executive (#10, 1841 |
| CREST | Give little credit to the European way to reach the summit (5) |
| KINABALU | The summit of Mount ____ is the highest point in the Malay archipelago |
