MOUNT EVEREST SUMMITEERS JUNKO TABEI, AND REINHOLD MESSNER IN KATHMANDU, 2003-05-26 (photo)

Junko Tabei (L) of Japan, the first woman to climb Mount Everest, Reinhold Messner (C) of Italy, who reached the summit without the use of bottled oxygen and his wife (R) smiles during Hanuman Dhoka Square Fesitival in Kathmandu, May 26, 2003. Street festivals, processions, concerts and parties will mark this week's 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest as Nepal fetes climbers from around the world, organisers said. New Zealand beekeeper Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepali sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the top of the 8,850 metre (29,035 feet) mountain on May 29, 1953. REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar PP03050104 PK/DL