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Sir Edmund Hillary, who was born in 1919 and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. He was in New Zealand, he has concerned and mountaineering. Although his life as a beekeeper, he climbed mountains in New Zealand, then in the Alps, and finally, in the Himalayas, where he climbed 11 summits of more than 20000 metres. At that time, Hillary was ready to join the highest mountain in the world.

Mt Everest is situated between Tibet and Nepal. Between 1920 and 1952, seven major expeditions had failed to reach the summit. In 1924, the famous mountaineer George Leigh-Mallory, in the first trial. During the year 1952, a team of mountaineers Swiss was forced to return after reaching the southern tip, at 1000 metres from the summit.

Edmund Hillary and education was Everest expeditions in 1951 and again in the year 1952. These uses Hillary has attracted the attention of Sir John Hunt, head of a mission sponsored by the Joint Committee of the Himalayas Alpine Club of Great Britain and the Royal Geographic Society, for the attack on Everest in 1953.

The expedition reached the summit of the South in May, but all but two mountaineers, who most constrained by the exhaustion of height. Finally, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a native Nepali mountaineer who participated in five previous Everest-Tours, were the only members of the party, which is capable, the latest attack on the summit. The 11.30 on the morning of May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit 29,028 feet above sea level, the highest point on Earth. As notable, given that the performance of the achievement of the Summit was the climb treacherous resume his head.

Coincidentally, the conquest of Mount Everest was announced that the British public on the eve of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The triumph of a British expedition, conducted in conjunction with the inauguration of the young queen has done much to restore the confidence of a nation tired of long years of war and post-war needs time. Edmund Hillary returned to England with other climbers and Queen was awarded a knighthood.

Now famous, Sir Edmund Hillary was exploration of Antarctica and New Zealand began the portion of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955 to 1958. In 1958, he took part in the first expedition to the South Pole mechanized. Hillary went to the mountains to organize more shipments, but as the years passed, he became increasingly interested in the welfare of the Nepalese people. In the 1960's, he returned to Nepal in the Help Center for the Development of Society, construction of clinics, hospitals and schools 17.

In order to facilitate these projects, two airstrips built. These airstrips had the unintended consequence will bring more tourists and aspirants remote mountain in the region. The Nepali put more of their forests for fuel for mountaineers. Edmund Hillary was concerned by the deterioration of the environment in the Nepali Himalayas, and convinced the government, laws on the protection of forests and explain the region around Everest National Park. The Nepali can not afford to finance this project, and he himself had no experience in the management of the park. Hillary took advantage of his great prestige for the government of New Zealand to the need for aid.

As a result of the success of the Expedition Everest, Hillary and Sir John Hunt has published his account of the expedition, the ascent of Everest. This book was published in the United States as "The Conquest of Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary's autobiography Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, in 1975, was published. In 1979, he published by the ocean to the sky, an account his expedition in 1977, from the mouth of his visit to Its source in the Himalayas.

Sir Edmund life has been overshadowed by the loss of his wife and daughter in a plane crash in 1975. He continued to occupy, environmental and humanitarian causes, on behalf of the Nepali people for the rest of his life. He died at home in New Zealand at the age of 88, betrauert of his compatriots and legions of fans all over the world.