where was the aforementioned climber from?
Auckland, New Zealand
Edmund Hillary
Hillary was born to Percival Augustus (1885-1965) and Gertrude (née Clark) Hillary in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 July 1919.
who was the first to climb mt everest Sir Edmund Percival Hillary who was he? Mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist can you name some of his charity work? He assisted the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan Honorary President of the American Himalayan Foundation and Trust and Mountain Wilderness. where is the said mountain located? In the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. what is the height of this mountain? 8,844 m how is the litter controlled here? In February 2019, due to the mounting waste problem, China closed the base camp on its side of Everest to visitors without climbing permits.
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Edmund Hillary [SEP] Early life
Hillary was born to Percival Augustus (1885-1965) and Gertrude (née Clark) Hillary in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 July 1919. His father Percy had served at Gallipoli with the 15th (North Auckland) Regiment, and was discharged "medically unfit" from the Army in 1916; he had married Gertrude after his return to New Zealand. His grandfather Edmund Raymond Hillary (b. 1836) from Lancashire, England was a watchmaker, who immigrated to northern Wairoa in the mid-19th century. He married Annie “Ida” Fleming from Ireland having four children. His maternal great-grandparents the Clark's, were both from Yorkshire. His family moved to Tuakau, south of Auckland, in 1920, after Percy was allocated eight acres (3.2 ha) of land there as a returned soldier.