Historically, Solukhumbu was part of the Kirata Kingdoms in the early and medieval era, within Majh Kirat Khambuwan. Before the unification of Nepal, what is now Solukhumbu was part of Chaudandi of Majh Kirat; in 1773 AD the King of Gorkha attacked and absorbed it into Nepal. The Solukhumbu district was established in 1962 out of the old East No. 3 district, with the Solu and Rawa thums carved out to form it. Tourism in the Sagarmatha area began in the early 1960s, and Sagarmatha National Park was established on 19 July 1976, becoming Nepal's first Natural World Heritage Site in 1979. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first documented ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, putting the Khumbu region on the world map.
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