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Edmund Hillary

1919 - 2008

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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. From 1985 to 1988 he served as New Zealand's High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh and concurrently as Ambassador to Nepal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Hillary is the most popular mountaineer, the 2nd most popular biography from New Zealand and the most popular New Zealander Mountaineer.

Edmund Hillary is most famous for being the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He and his Nepalese Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, reached the summit on May 29, 1953.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Edmund Hillary ranks 1 out of 56. After him are Tenzing Norgay, Reinhold Messner, Heinrich Harrer, Andrew Irvine, Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, George Mallory, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Jerzy Kukuczka, Jacques Balmat, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Edmund Hillary ranks 5. Before him are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Eva Perón, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and Siad Barre. After him are J. D. Salinger, Primo Levi, I. K. Gujral, Doris Lessing, Kim Jong-suk, Joseph Murray, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Among people deceased in 2008, Edmund Hillary ranks 7. Before him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Paul Newman, Yves Saint Laurent, Suharto, Bobby Fischer, and Chinghiz Aitmatov. After him are Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, Willis Lamb, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and Hua Guofeng.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary ranks 2 out of 303. Before him are Ernest Rutherford (1871). After him are Russell Crowe (1964), Maurice Wilkins (1916), Bruce McLaren (1937), Peter Jackson (1961), Alan MacDiarmid (1927), Katherine Mansfield (1888), Denny Hulme (1936), Rosé (1997), Anthony Wilding (1883), and William Phillips (1914).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In New Zealand

Among mountaineers born in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary ranks 1. After him are Rob Hall (1961).

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