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	Sir Edmund Hillary - MSN Encarta
		In 1955 Hillary was appointed leader of the New Zealand party of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which was headed by British geologist Vivian E. Fuchs.
		Hillary led his party across Antarctica by snow tractor, pioneering a new route to the South Pole.
		Hillary was granted honorary citizenship of Nepal during celebrations held in 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of the ascent.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578850/Sir_Edmund_Hillary.html (557 words)

	Edmund Hillary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE (born July 20, 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer.
		Hillary was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) on July 16, 1953; a member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ) in 1987; and a Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG) on April 23, 1995.
		Hillary's son Peter Hillary is an adventurer and has climbed Everest twice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Hillary (794 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Sir Edmund Hillary : www.nzedge.com
		Edmund Percival Hillary was born in Auckland in 1919.
		Hillary on the summit of Mount Seally in the Southern Alps NZ 1947.
		Hillary is someone who did the virtually impossible, climbed the world’s highest mountain, and then did the nearly impossible again refusing, as Don George writes, "to be spoiled by all the adulation and accolades that the achievement earned him, and remaining loyal to an ideal and a people he loved.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/hillary.html (4353 words)

	snopes.com: Hillary Clinton and Sir Edmund Hillary
		Sir Edmund Hillary, a frequent visitor and benefactor of Nepal since his historic trek, had a brief Hillary-to-Hillary handshake at the Katmandu airport before Clinton departed Sunday for Bangladesh.
		Clinton confessed that her mother, Dorothy Rodham, had read an article about the intrepid Edmund Hillary, a one-time beekeeper who had taken to mountain climbing, when she was pregnant with her daughter in 1947 and liked the name.
		Depending upon how one interprets Hillary Clinton's claim, either seeing Edmund Hillary's name in print inspired her mother to name her 'Hillary' (even though she came across it being used a surname rather than a first name), or it inspired her to use the less-common spelling of 'Hillary' rather than 'Hilary' when naming her daughter.
	www.snopes.com /politics/clintons/hillary.asp (993 words)

	Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Summit Mount Everest 1953 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay using an Ice Axe as a standard for the British Flag as they became the first human beings to set foot on the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest point on earth.
		Sir Edmund Hillary was responsible for making most of the Mount Everest pictures taken during the ascent therefore Hillary was also most responsible for building the archive of Mount Everest pictures of the 1953 expeditionary force for the british Royal Geographical Society.
		Edmund was later to be Knighted by Queen Elizabeth in recognition of the overall importance of his contributions to the British Commonwealth of Nations.
	www.artsales.com /ARTstudio/highland_studios/sir_edmund_hillary.html (1110 words)

	Sir Edmund Hillary
		Edmund Hillary was born in Auckland, New Zealand and grew up in a small town south of Auckland.
		Sir Edmund would later say they were not really hungry while they were on the mountain, but they had to make themselves eat to keep up their strength.
		Hillary was an humble man. For many years he refused to acknowledge that he was the first man to reach the top of Mt. Everest.
	gardenofpraise.com /ibdhill.htm (1555 words)

	Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Everest, dies at 88 \| World news \| The Guardian
		Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Everest, dies at 88
		Photograph: PA Sir Edmund Hillary, the beekeeper from Auckland who conquered Mount Everest and went on to become one of the greatest adventurers of the 20th century, has died at the age of 88.
		Hillary, who reached the peak of Everest in 1953, days before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, only admitted being the first man to reach the top of the world's highest mountain after the death of his climbing companion, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, in 1986.
	www.guardian.co.uk /world/2008/jan/11/uknews4.mainsection (852 words)

	Everest legend Edmund Hillary dies - CNN.com
		Hillary left a crucifix at the top of the mountain and Tenzing, in keeping with his Buddhist beliefs, left an offering of food.
		Hillary took a picture of Tenzing at the peak but, because the Sherpa guide did not know how to use a camera, there are no pictures of Hillary there.
		Hillary was not always complimentary of the more than 1,300 people who have climbed Everest since he did.
	edition.cnn.com /2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/edmund.hillary/index.html?eref=edition (830 words)

	Sir Edmund Hillary - Telegraph
		Sir Edmund Hillary, who died late yesterday aged 88, made his name as the first conqueror (with Norgay Tenzing) of Everest; just as impressive, though, was the use he made of his renown over the remainder of his life.
		Hillary developed a deep admiration for the Sherpa people, and through the Himalayan Trust which he established in the 1960s oversaw the building of 25 schools, two hospitals and a dozen medical clinics, as well as bridges and airfields.
		Hillary was bitterly disappointed the following year when the British Himalayan Committee decided that Shipton, whom he greatly admired, should be replaced as leader of the forthcoming British Everest expedition by John Hunt - "someone unknown to me personally, and a senior Army officer to boot".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/11/db1104.xml (805 words)

	Tributes flow for humble Everest conquerer Sir Edmund Hillary \| Herald Sun
		SIR Edmund Hillary's family are drawing comfort from tributes worldwide after the Everest conquerer's death from a heart attack today aged 88.
		Sir Edmund, accompanied by his second wife June, the widow of climber Peter Mulgrew, who died in the Erebus air crash in Antarctica, returned to Nepal for the 50th anniversary of the conquest of Everest.
		Sir Edmund's son Peter, who followed in his father's footsteps to the top of Everest, was believed to be flying back from the United States to be with family.
	www.news.com.au /heraldsun/story/0,21985,23036842-661,00.html (1875 words)

	Edmund Hillary, 1st atop Everest, dies - USATODAY.com
		Hillary summarized it for schoolchildren in 1998, when he said one didn't have to be a genius to do well in life.
		Hillary remains the only non-political person outside Britain honored as a member of the Britain's Order of the Garter, bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II on just 24 knights and ladies living worldwide at any time.
		Hillary remarried in 1990, to June Mulgrew, former wife of adventurer colleague and close friend Peter Mulgrew, who died in a passenger plane crash in the Antarctic.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2008-01-10-Hillary-me_N.htm (1888 words)

	Edmund Hillary, First Atop Everest, Dies
		Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to stand atop the world's highest mountain, was remembered Friday as a deeply driven but unassuming man who strived to help the people of Nepal in the decades after his ascent of Mount Everest.
		Hillary, who died Friday of a heart attack at 88, will have a state funeral in New Zealand, where he began the mountaineering career that took him and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay to the tallest point on earth, a spokesman for his family said.
		Hillary's life was marked by grand achievements, high adventure, discovery, excitement — but he was especially proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health clinics in Nepal, the homeland of Tenzing Norgay, the mountain guide with whom he stood arm in arm on the 29,035-foot summit of Everest on May 29, 1953.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/10/international/i145722S61.DTL&feed=rss.news (1711 words)

	Edmund Hillary - Uiquipedia
		Sir Edmund Hillary (Auckland, Nueva Zelanda, 1919 - 11 de xineru de 2008) foi un alpinista y esplorador neozelandés.
		Entóncenes Hillary, acompañáu del sherpa Tenzing Norgay, intentó algamar la cume'l 29 de mayu, y pisaron por primera vegada'l techu'l mundiu, de 8.848 metros, a les 11.30 hores, deteniéndose nella apenes un cuartu d'hora.
		Hillary desempeñó demientres munchos años el cargu d'Altu Comisionau de Nueva Zelanda na India.
	ast.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Hillary (314 words)

	NOVA Online \| Everest \| First to Summit
		New Zealanders Ed Hillary and George Lowe were included in the team, as was Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who was resident in India, as a full climbing member.
		Next, it was the turn of Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, generally regarded as the strongest and fittest members of the expedition at that time.
		Hillary's boots were frozen and he sought to thaw them out over the little flame.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/everest/history/firstsummit.html (870 words)

	Edmund Hillary News - The New York Times
		Sir Edmund Hillary, the lanky New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, along with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, won worldwide acclaim in 1953 by becoming the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak.
		Sir Edmund Hillary, was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
		When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last “giant leap for mankind” of pre-space-age generations.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/h/edmund_hillary/index.html?inline=nyt-per (973 words)

	Edmund Hillary: News & Videos about Edmund Hillary - CNN.com
		Sir Edmund Hillary has been laid to rest in New Zealand after thousands paid tribute to a mountaineer whose conquest of Mt Everest in 1953 was one of the 20th century's defining moments.
		Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died after suffering a heart attack.
		But I thought that what Hillary had accomplished with the late Tenzing Norkay, his Sherpa guide, was perhaps the single greatest sporting achievement of the twentieth century.
	topics.edition.cnn.com /topics/edmund_hillary (877 words)

	30 October 2000
		It is nearly 50 years since the headlines and that photograph of the lone conqueror on the summit.
		At the time we speculated whether it was Tenzing or Hillary in his oxygen mask, the union flag of the United Kingdom fluttering from the raised ice-pick.
		It is not surprising that Hillary should be from New Zealand, where the land is a challenge and an inspiration.
	www.mckellen.com /cinema/lotr/001030.htm (508 words)

	Hillary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edmund Hillary KBE, Explorer and first to ascend Mount Everest (with Tenzing Norgay).
		Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator and wife of former president Bill Clinton
		Hillary, or hiromi, a female character of Beyblade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hillary (106 words)

	Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88 - New York Times
		Sir Edmund Hillary, 83, smiles in front of a giant picture of Mount Everest at the Birendra International Convention Centre in Katmandu May 29, 2003.
		Sir Edmund Hillary, the lanky New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, won worldwide acclaim in 1953 by becoming the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, died Friday in Auckland, New Zealand.
		Farther up, they encountered what was later named the Hillary Step — a sheer face of rock and ice 40 feet high that Sir Edmund called “the most formidable obstacle on the ridge.” But they found a vertical crack and managed to climb it by bracing feet against one side and backs against the other.
	www.nytimes.com /2008/01/11/world/asia/11hillary.html?ex=1357707600&en=a4d3b0b08ba649e7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (962 words)

	Edmund Hillary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A son, Edmund, aged 19 in 1939, trained as an Accredited Teacher of Radiant Living and was briefly Herbert Sutcliffe's assistant.
		In fact all the members of the Hillary family, his father, mother, sister and brother enrolled as members, became teachers and subsequently four of the family sat for and passed the examination for Associated Teacher of Radiant Living.
		I am glad to have on record the many times they testified to the fact that Radiant Living came into their lives bringing harmony and understanding to each member of the family and the family as a whole just when it was most needed.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/RadiLiv/Hillary.htm (721 words)

	Climber Edmund Hillary, Everest Pioneer, Dies at 88 : NPR
		New Zealand-born mountaineer Edmund Hillary prepares for his successful attempt to be the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, in May 1953.
		Nearly 50 years after their fathers proved to the world it could be done, Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay, along with Brent Bishop, the son of one of the first Americans to summit, retraced their fathers' footsteps as part of a National Geographic expedition.
		The immensity of what Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did that bright blue day in 1953 is nearly impossible to imagine, even for the most seasoned climber.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=18007923 (1338 words)

	SIR EDMUND HILLARY BIOGRAPHY
		In 1975, Hillary travelled by jet boat from the mouth of the Ganges to the head waters of the river high in the Himalayas.
		What was seen by Hillary as merely an adventure was seen by millions of Indians as a pilgrimage.
		His son, Peter Hillary, inspired by his father has become a well-known climber, in 1990 (and in May 2002 a second time) he stood on the summit of Mount Everest with the same view his father had seen 37 years earlier.
	www.jerberyd.com /climbing/climbers/hillary (316 words)

	ESPN - Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mount Everest, dies at 88 - ESPN
		Sir Edmund Hillary, shown during the 50th anniversary celebration of Scott Base in Antarctica last year, died Friday of a heart attack in New Zealand.
		Before Tenzing's death in 1986, Hillary consistently refused to confirm he was first, saying he and the Sherpa had climbed as a team to the top.
		Lady June Hillary said that her family was comforted by the messages of support from around the world.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/news/story?id=3190797 (2152 words)

	Final farewell for Edmund Hillary - CNN.com
		Hillary's son, Peter, told the congregation: "Adventure was compulsory growing up in the Hillary household.
		Hillary, who was 88, died at Auckland City Hospital on January 11.
		Hillary, who served during World War II in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, began climbing while in high school and traveled to the central Himalayas to join a British party exploring the southern face of Everest in 1951.
	edition.cnn.com /2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/21/edmund.hillary.funeral/index.html?eref=edition (544 words)

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