Tenzing Norgay and his climbing partner Edmund Hillary became the first people to verifiably summit the tallest mountain on Earth on May 29th, 1953. And yet despite that high bar, Tenzing and Hillary are not the only ones to have taken important steps on this day in history’
The history of cotton clothing has followed an interesting path, including a period of a few decades in the United States when cotton represented ingenuity, resilience, and patriotism itself.