By Charlie You and Henry Chen

go to climb

Mt Everest
Full name: Edmund Percival Hillary
Born at: July 20, 1919
Born in: Auckland, New Zealand
Died at: January 11, 2008 (aged 88)

Died in:Auckland, New Zealand

He had married and he is living with his family

he has 1 son and 2 daughter they are very happy.
He is a New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist.

He is the first mountaineer to climbed

Mt Everest.
Sir Edmund Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in
secondary school, making his first major climb in 1939, reaching the
summit of Mount Ollivier.

On May 29,1953,Hillary and Nepalese sherpa mountaineer

Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of
Mount Everest.

He reached the South Pole by tractor on January 4,

1958, as leader of the New Zealand division of the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. He was
among the first to scale Mt. Herschel in the Antarctic
expedition of 1967.
In 1985, Hillary and astronaut Neil Armstrong flew a
small twin-engine plane to the North Pole, making
Hillary the first person to stand at both poles and the
summit of Everest, which was known as the Third Pole.
He also cultivated resources for the people of
Nepal.Hillary founded the Himalayan Trust, which built
schools, hospitals and transportation hubs in Nepal.
Various geographic regions bear Hillary's name, and the
New Zealand five-dollar note bore his image. Time
magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential
people of the 20th century.