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Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everst, led by John Hunt.Contents
Contents : The highest mountain; the next frontier; because it was there; bee keeper’s son; sherpa climber; the top of the world; life on the mountain; mountain dwellers; down the mountain; the everest legacy; glossary and index;
