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History on Sir Edmund Hillary

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The late Sir Edmund Hillary is from New Zealand, by profession he was a beekeeper. And Mountaineering was his hobby.

He was the first man along with Tensing Norgaiy to climb Mount Everest.He alsom walked to the poles, as an explorer .

He collected money and visited the sherpas, or coolies who helped him to climb mount Everest.He never forgot them. The money collected from a trust would be used to build schools and hospitals for the gurkhas,.

Sir Hillary came yearly to Nepal.

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16y ago

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