|Sir Edmund Hillary KG ONZ KBE Hillary, c. 1953 20 July 1919|
Tuakau, New Zealand |Died||11 January 2008 Auckland, New Zealand
|Cause of death||Myocardial infarction| |Spouse(s)||Louise Mary
Rose (m. 1953–1975) June Mulgrew (m. 1989–2008) |Children||Peter
(b. 1954) Sarah (b. 1955) |Parents||Percival Augustus Hillary
Gertrude Hillary, née Clark Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG,
ONZ, KBE (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 magazine 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