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Edmund Hillary's last wife was June Mulgrew (married in 1989) until Edmund died in 2008
the plane malfunctioned and crashed
Edmund Hillary's first wife was called Louise Mary Rose.
In 1975 while en route to join Edmund Hillary in the village of Phaphlu, where he was helping to build a hospital, Louise (his wife) and Belinda (his daughter) were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu airport shortly after take-off.
They both died in a devastating plane crash. This was in 1975.
In 1975 while en route to join Hillary in the village of Phaphlu, where he was helping to build a hospital, Louise (Ed's wife) and Belinda Ed's daughter) were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu airport shortly after take-off.
Sir Edmund Hillary's second wife, June, is still alive as of June 2014. His first wife, Louise, and their second daughter, Belinda, died in a plane crash in 1975.
Edmund Hillary's wife Louise Mary Rose and his daughter Belinda were killed in a plane crash in Nepal.
In 1975 while en route to join Hillary in the village of Phaphlu, where he was helping to build a hospital, Louise (his wife) and Belinda (his daughter) were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu airport shortly after take-off.
Edmund Hillary's first wife did not die in a car crash, it was a plane crash. In 1975 while en route to join Hillary in the village of Phaphlu, where he was helping to build a hospital, Louise (wife) and Belinda (daughter) were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu airport shortly after take-off.
In 1975 while en route to join Edmund Hillary in the village of Phaphlu, where he was helping to build a hospital, Edmund's wife Louise and daughter Belinda were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu airport shortly after take-off. Edmund became very depressed and it was said to be his part of his life.
I expect that Edmund Hillary's worst moment in his life is when his wife and daughter was killed in a plane crash in 1975.