10 of the Greatest Explorers On Earth

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5 Sir Edmund Hillary

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  • Full name: Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
  • Born: 20 July 1919
  • Died: 11 January 2008
  • Known for: New Zealander Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with his sherpa Tenzing Norgay – the first two people known to have done so. He later founded the Himalayan Trust to help the Sherpa people of Nepal.


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