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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, ... [15] [99] June, Lady Hillary, died in Auckland on 1 June 2024. [100]
All occupants on board died in the crash; they included the pilot Peter Shand, Sir Edmund Hillary's wife Louise and daughter Belinda, the family's dog and two Sherpa friends of the family. [ 4 ] [ 6 ]
Edmund Hillary reading The Times, with his photo of fellow summiteer Tenzing Norgay on the cover, July 1953. The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953.
The crash of Flight 901 is one of New Zealand's three deadliest disasters – the others being the 1874 Cospatrick sailing ship disaster in which 470 people died, [39] and the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, which killed 256 people. [40] At the time of the disaster, it was the fourth-deadliest air crash of all time. [41]
The peak is named after mountaineer Arthur Ollivier, who died in 1897. [2] Mount Ollivier was Sir Edmund Hillary's first major climb, in 1939. After his death in 2008, there was a proposal to rename the peak Mount Hillary as a memorial, a suggestion opposed by Arthur Ollivier's family. [2]
In his own Super Bowl ad, Damon walks through sweeping montages, comparing crypto investors to Magellan and Sir Edmund Hillary (at least, we think that’s what it’s about).
Articles relating to the explorer Edmund Hillary (1919–2008). Pages in category "Edmund Hillary" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Hillary Ellington Brown, 33, had suffered a cardiac arrest and was taken to a hospital, where she was later put on life support. She died seven days later. An autopsy into her death is pending.