Nepal celebrated the 60th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest on Wednesday by honoring climbers who followed in the footsteps of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Nepalese officials offered flower garlands and scarfs to the climbers who took part in the ceremony. They were taken around Katmandu on horse drawn carriages followed by hundreds of people who marched holding banners to mark the anniversary. Hillary and Norgay reached the summit of Everest on May 29, Cheap Snapbacks Hats 1953. Since then thousands of people have reached the 8,850 meter (29,035 foot) peak. Tenzing Norgay died in Darjeeling, India, in 1986 at age 71. Hillary, who died of heart failure in 2008 at the age of 88, attended the golden jubilee celebration of the conquest in 2003.

L R: Hugh Ruttledge, leader of the expedition; Doctor Gordon Noel Humphreys; Mrs. Humphreys; Lieutenant Jim Gavin; and Mrs. Gavin, stand aboard the SS Ranchi at Southampton, England chi hair straighteners before sailing to India on Feb 1, 1936. Wholesale Snapbacks Hats The group would make up the advance party for the 1936 Everest Expedition, the sixth British expedition. The party included Mrs. wholesalesnapbackshats.us.com Noel Humphreys, wife of Dr. Humphreys who would accompany the party as far as Darjeeling, India. Hugh Ruttledge previously led a 1933 expedition to the mountain where climbers reached 8570 meters but failed to summit. In the 1936 expedition, climbers turned back around 7,000 meters due to bad weather. (AP Photo)

In this 1963 photo released by Henry S. Hall, Jr. American Alpine Club Library, Barry Corbet Personal Papers and Films, members of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition team and sherpas are shown with their climbing gear on Mt. Everest. Jim Whittaker reached the top of the world on May 1, 1963, a decade after Britain's Edmund Hillary. Three weeks later, two other Americans, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, became the first men ever to scale Everest via the mountain's west side. (AP Photo/Henry S. Hall, Jr. American Alpine Club Library, Barry Corbet Personal Papers and Films)

Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997, where he is relearning his job as a pathologist. A year prior, he lay snow blind, frost bitten and in a hypothermal coma a few hundred feet from the summit of Mt. Everest. A sudden storm claimed eight lives of his party, the worst disaster ever on Everest. His right arm was amputated; he lost the fingers of his left hand; and his nose was also removed. Weathers has undergone eight major surgeries. (AP Photo/Dallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill)

In this photo provided by Japanese mountain guide Hiroyuki Kuraoka, 71 year old Japanese mountain climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, center, climbs to reach the summit of Mount Everest to become the oldest person to scale it, on Tuesday, May 22, 2007. Yanagisawa, a retired junior high school teacher from central Japan, was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days old when he reached the 8,850 meter (29,035 foot) peak on May 22, becoming the oldest Everest climber and beating the previous record set last year by another Japanese climber, Takao Arayama, who was aged 70 years, 7 months and 13 days. (AP Photo/Hiroyuki Kuraoka, HO)

Nepalis view Mount Everest from Shyangboche some 140 km (87 miles) northeast of Kathmandu on December 3, 2009. Nepal's cabinet is due to hold a meeting on December 4 on a plateau 5,262 metres (17,192 feet) high, in the shadow of Mount Everest, to draw attention to the effects of global warming before a key climate change summit in Copenhagen. Scientists say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and creating huge glacial lakes that threaten to burst, devastating mountain communities downstream. (PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

Nepalese Sherpa guide Apa, 48, who holds the record for most climbs up Mount Everest waves before setting off on chi hair dryer a new expedition to scale the world's highest mountain for a 19th time in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 6, 2009. Apa flew out of the capital, Katmandu, with his team for the small airstrip at Lukla, from where they would trek to Everest's base camp and spend a few days acclimatizing and preparing for their summit bid. His wife Yangin Sherpa is seen at right. Apa holds the recored for Everest summits at 21. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

Nepalese mountaineer Pemba Dorje Sherpa (L) and others pause at the Hillary Step while pushing for the summit of Everest on May 19, 2009 from the south face of Nepal. Bad weather conditions forced three Nepalese Sherpa brothers to give up their plans to set a new world record by spending 24 hours in the "death zone" on top of Mount Everest. Pemba Dorje Sherpa, 30, and his two younger brothers reached the summit on May 19, but were forced down after only two hours, Pemba told AFP after returning to Kathmandu. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

This chi hair straightener picture taken on May 23, 2010 shows a Nepalese sherpa collecting garbage, left by climbers, at an altitude of 8,000 meters during the Everest clean up expedition at Mount Everest. A group of 20 Nepalese climbers, including some top summiteers collected 1,800 kilograms of garbage in a high risk expedition to clean up the world's highest peak. Led by seven time summiteer Namgyal Sherpa, the team braved thin air and below freezing temperatures to clear around two tons of trash left behind by mountaineers, that included empty oxygen cylinders and corpses. Since 1953, there have been some 300 deaths on Everest. Many bodies have been brought down, but those above 8,000 meters have generally been left to the elements their bodies preserved by the freezing temperatures. The priority of the sherpas had been to clear trash just below the summit area, but coordinator Karki said large quantities of refuse was collected from 8,000 meters and below. (NAMGYAL SHERPA/AFP/Getty Images)

In this image released by mountain guide Adrian Ballinger of Alpenglow Expeditions and taken Saturday, May 18, 2013, climbers navigate the knife edge ridge just below the Hillary Step on their way to the summit of Mount Everest, in the Khumbu region of the Nepal Himalayas. Sixty years ago, Sir Edmund Hillary and climbing partner Tenzing Norgay were the first to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on earth on May 29, 1953. (AP Photo/Alpenglow Expeditions, Adrian Ballinger)

In this photo distributed by MIURA DOLPHINS CO., LTD., 80 year old Japanese extreme skier Yuichiro Miura, right, who has had four heart operations in recent years, stands atop the summit of Mount Everest as he becomes the oldest person to climb the world's tallest mountain, May 23, 2013. local time, according to a Nepalese mountaineering official and Miura's Tokyo based support team. (AP Photo/MIURA DOLPHINS CO., LTD.)