The historic success by Andrej Štremfelj and Nejc Zaplotnik was marked with a ceremony and an exhibition about their conquest of the highest mountain in the world.

Štremfelj and Zaplotnik were part of a Yugoslav expedition which featured 25 members. 21 of them were Slovenians.

The two Slovenian mountaineers reached the summit of Mt Everest after 45 days of climbing the mountain in extreme weather conditions.