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Man who 'knocked off' Everest is no more
January 11, 2008
Sir Edmund Hillary, who became a mountaineering legend by conquering, for
the first time, the world's highest summit Mount Everest, devoted his life
for the betterment of Nepal's Sherpas who live on the slopes of the
Himalayas.
A school mountain trip in 1935 made the fragile-looking boy decide that it
was his calling in life to scale peaks even as he made his living as a
beekeeper. He climbed mountains in New Zealand, then in the Alps, and
finally in the Himalayas, where he climbed 11 different peaks of over
20,000 feet.
Photograph: Michael Bradley/Getty Images
Caption: A file picture of Sir Edmund Hillary at his home in Auckland, New Zealand.
Also read: The heroes of Mount Everest
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