Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary...
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Peter Edmund Hillary (born 26 December 1954) is a New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist. He is the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with mountaineer...
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The Edmund Hillary Fellowship is a Fellowship programme for entrepreneurs, investors and startup teams in New Zealand. The idea behind the Fellowship was...
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(40 ft) rock step two-thirds of the way up. The step was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who led Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, on 29 May 1953 climbing the crack between...
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Tenzing Norgay (category Edmund Hillary)
certainly reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people...
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needed] The airport was built in 1964 under the supervision of Sir Edmund Hillary, who originally intended to build it on flat farmland. However, local...
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to whether they were the first to reach the top. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first documented ascent of Everest in 1953, using the southeast...
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David Sharp (mountaineer) (section Sir Edmund Hillary)
initially severely criticised by the media and others, including Sir Edmund Hillary, for not helping Sharp. Inglis stated that Sharp had been passed by...
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individuals known to have used Eureka! tents over the years include Sir Edmund Hillary on a Himalayan Expedition to Nepal; the nineteen-man team on the first...
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reference to the famous New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary. The Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award is a voluntary, non-competitive programme of...
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