Edmund Hillary

He was born in Auckland on July 20, 1919. He had a sister called June and a brother called Rex. At age 16, he began his interest in climbing after an excursion to Ruapehu (Tuakau ). During World War II he was a member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and suffered severe burns on the Solomon Islands.

In 1951 he was part of an Everest expedition WHICH was a failure. In 1953, he joined the British expedition as part of the Trans-Antarctic expedition of the Commonwealth which was the third expedition that reached the South Pole, and the first that reached the South Pole with vehicles.

He married Louise Mary Rose and they had three children: Peter, Sarah and Belinda. In 1975, the plane which his wife Louise and her Belinda daughter were in crashed in Kathmandu. He married again in 1989 with Juna Mulgrew. In 1980 he WAS NAMED ambassador in India. Hillary died of A heart attack when he was eighty-eight years old

In 2008 Lukle Airport, the nearest to the Everest, was renamed as Tenzing-Hillary in his honour.

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