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Edmund Hillary
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climbed a towering mountain in New Zealand's Southern Alps
Edmund Hillary has said this was the happiest day iof his life, starting his passion for climbing. Soon after he started to study mountaineering and moved to the South Island's mountains to advance his climbing skills. -
World War 2 starts and Edmund joined thre Royal New Zealand Air Force
Edmund was seriously injured as a navigator on flying boats in the South Pacific. Him and his brother partnered in an apiary and continued on his path of climbing. -
Climbed to the top of Mukut Parbat
23,760- foot summit with much struggles -
Edmund joined Shipton's climbing group
They moved for a bit to the Everest area and spent about 2 months exploring routes up the mountain -
The swiss gave them permission to climb Everest
they could attempt it that spring -
joins the British Everest Reconnaissance Expedition that planed to climb Mt Everest
Leader of the New Zealand Gawhal Expedition in the Himalayas made this idea -
Edmund helped Tenzing his climbing partner choose the site for the base camp
this was important because they were making the climb up Everest offical -
Reached the summit of Mt. Everest
At about 9:00 A.M he reached the south summit and fully reached the top at 11:30 A.M -
given knighthood
became Sir Edmund Hillary for his conquest of Mt. Everest -
death
