Edmund Hillary

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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born July 20, 1919; died January 11, 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, most famous for the first successful climb of Mount Everest. He reached the 29,035-foot summit on May 29, 1953 with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

  • Edmund Hilllary in Poland, 2004

  • The statue of Sir Edmund Hillary permanently gazing towards New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki/Mount Cook.

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