WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.
Well George, we finally knocked the bastard off."
– Hillary's first words, to lifelong friend George Lowe, on returning from Everest's summit
Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they became the first human beings to set foot on the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest point on earth.
(I had always remember Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain- Mount Everest. One of our teachers got us interested by telling us about him. As`we were not born then, this particular teacher of ours is so passionate about mountain climbing as such she discusses the mountain and the man during our geography classes. My two other friends and I got so interested . We were so inspired and started to build a scrapbook about him. We felt as if we knew him and wanted to be like him . From then on we had always harboured an inner desire to climb Mount Everest too. Two years ago when we met again, we were still laughing at our dreams about climbing the mountain.)
Sir Edmund Hillary was born in 1919 and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. It was in New Zealand that he became interested in mountain climbing. Although he made his living as a beekeeper, he climbed mountains in New Zealand, then in the Alps, and finally in the Himalayas, where he climbed 11 different peaks of over 20,000 feet.
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