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The family donated land at Whites Beach that is now crossed by trampers on the Hillary Trail, named for Edmund. [105] Hillary said of the area: "That is the thing that international travel brings home to me – it's always good to be going home.
Peter Edmund Hillary (born 26 December 1954) is a New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist. He is the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. [1] When Peter Hillary summited Everest in 1990, he and his father were the first father/son duo to achieve the feat.
Sir Edmund Hillary’s family will ascend the mountain that made their grandfather a household name in a new documentary being launched in Cannes. Directed by Ben Webster, one of the world’s top ...
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 ]
Jamling would join Peter Hillary, Edmund Hillary's son, in climbing Everest in 2003 on the 50th anniversary of their fathers' climb. [ 59 ] Other relatives include Norgay's nephews, Nawang Gombu and Topgay, who took part in the 1953 Everest expedition; and his grandsons, Tashi Tenzing, who lives in Sydney , Australia, and the Trainor grandsons ...
Sarah Hillary (born 1956, Auckland) is a New Zealand artist and art gallery conservator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is the daughter of the New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She had also detected a forgery of a Gottfried Lindauer painting.
In 1951, along with Hillary, Lowe was a member of the first New Zealand expedition to the Himalayas. On that expedition, Earle Riddiford and Edmund Cotter made a first ascent of 7,242m Mukut Parbat in Garhwal, India, a feat which earned New Zealand two places on the 1951 British reconnaissance of Everest. Riddiford and Hillary took up this offer.
Dingle served as the chairman of the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre and The Project K Charitable Trust, and was the founding chairman of the New Zealand Outdoor Assembly. [2] He is the co-founder of the Graeme Dingle Foundation along with his wife, Jo-anne Wilkinson , Lady Dingle.