Edmund Percival Hillary Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary Template:Post-nominals (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. Hillary was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in secondary school, making his first major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier. He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a navigator during World War II. Prior to the 1953 Everest expedition, Hillary had been part of the British reconnaissance expedition to the mountain in 1951, as well as an unsuccessful attempt to climb Cho Oyu in 1952. As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in 1958. He subsequently reached the North Pole, making him the first person to reach both poles and summit Everest.Following his ascent of Everest, Hillary devoted most of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan Trust, which he founded. Through his efforts, many schools and hospitals were built in Nepal.
Percival Augustus Hillary, Gertrude Hillary, née Clark
Siblings
Rex Hillary, June Hillary
Awards
Padma Vibhushan, Patron's Gold Medal, Hubbard Medal
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting. [Comment eight days before he reached the South Pole via an overland route, 5 January 1958]
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Better if he had said something natural like, Jesus, here we are. [Commenting on 'Neil Armstrong''s 1969 message from the moon, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."]
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We knocked the bastard off. [on his successful ascent of Mt Everest, quoted in the London Sunday Times, 21 July 1974]
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Fact
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Apiarist 1936-1943 and 1951-1970; KBE 1953; Polar Medal 1958; New Zealand High Commissioner to India, Bangladesh and Nepal 1985-1988; ONZ 1987; KG 1995.
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He and Tenzing made the final assault on Everest as a team, and were reluctant to disclose which man was first to actually set foot on the peak. Hillary took photographs of Tenzing standing on the summit because Tenzing did not know how to use a camera. Both men eventually revealed in their memoirs that Hillary was the first to step onto the summit.
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Has three children: Sarah, Peter and Belinda. Belinda and her mother died in a plane crash in May 1975.
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Made a Knight of the Garter in 1995.
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Appointed a KBE in 1953 and awarded the Order of New Zealand in 1987.
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Along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, he was one of the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bro'Town
2004
TV Series special thanks - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nepal - Im Land der Scherpa
2007
Documentary
Himself
Cameras in Middle-Earth
2004
Video documentary
Himself
Getaway
2003
TV Series
Himself
Wilderness Men
2000
TV Mini-Series
Himself
A Life of My Choice
1999
TV Movie documentary
Hillary, Sir Edmund
Boss TV
1999
TV Series
Himself
Hillary & Tenzing: Climbing to the Roof of World
1997
Video documentary
Himself
Happy Birthday Ma'am
1996
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Mt Cook: Footsteps to the Sky
1994
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine
1992
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Tengboche: A Threatened Sanctuary
1988
TV Movie documentary
Himself (sponsor of Sherpa schools, hospital) (as Sir Edmund Hillary)
Return to Everest
1984
TV Movie
Himself
V.I.P.-Schaukel
1976
TV Series documentary
Himself
What's My Line?
1970
TV Series
Himself - Mystery Guest
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
TV Series
Himself
What's My Line?
1962
TV Series
Himself - Mystery Guest
The Jack Paar Tonight Show
1959
TV Series
Himself
To Tell the Truth
1959
TV Series
Himself
The Conquest of Everest
1953
Documentary
Himself (Bee Keeper)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Life in the Mountains... The Legacy of Lou Whittaker
2013
Documentary
Himself
Beyond the Edge
2013
Documentary
Himself
Burgenland ist überall
2010
TV Series
Himself
Angry Planet
2010
TV Series documentary
Himself - Mount Everest pioneer
Willkommen Österreich
2008
TV Series
Himself
Surviving Everest: A Tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Channel 4 News
2008
TV Series
Himself
Dying for Everest
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself (as Sir Edmund Hillary)
National Geographic: Beyond the Movie - The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King