biography
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Hillary, Sir Edmund (Percival)
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| Mountaineer and explorer, and later writer and lecturer, born in Auckland, New Zealand. As a member of John Hunt's Everest expedition he attained, with Tenzing Norgay, the summit of Mt Everest in 1953, for which he was knighted. As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–8) led by Sir Vivian Fuchs, he and a New Zealand expeditionary party reached the South Pole in 1958. He subsequently established a medical and educational charity, the Himalayan Trust, for the Sherpa peoples of Nepal, which since 1961 has built many schools and two hospitals. His autobiography, Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, appeared in 1975. He was appointed New Zealand High Commissioner to India in 1984. |
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