After tackling Mount Everest, Hillary continued to climb mountains and explore new adventures, including mountains in Australia, Switzerland, and ten other peaks in the Himalayas that were more than 20, feet high.
They were the first group to be successful in that venture. Hillary was the first man to reach both of the poles of the Earth. In , Hillary led a team that traced the route of the Ganges River from its mouth all the way to its source in the Himalayas. He was concerned with the plight of the people of Nepal and helped build schools and hospitals there. He founded the Himalayan Trust to continue humanitarian efforts for the Sherpa people and to help conservation efforts.
He asked the government to protect the area around Mount Everest and make it a national park. One of the most famous explorers of all time, Sir Edmund Hillary lived most of his life in New Zealand. He was born there, died there, and lived there between his trips all over the world to climb mountains, trek across Antarctica, and help out the Nepalese people. Hillary was a beekeeper with his brother Rex. Since this was mainly a summer occupation, he had the time to climb mountains in the winter months.
In , after only 22 years of marriage, Louise was killed in an airplane crash along with their 16 year old daughter Belinda. On January 11, , at the age of 88, Hillary died of heart failure at the Auckland City Hospital at about 9 a. A large state funeral was held in his honor at Holy Trinity Cathedral, and the country of New Zealand mourned their deceased adventurer climber.
All rights reserved. He became a beekeeper with his brother because this allowed Hillary to climb during the summer. In , he traveled to Switzerland to climb in the Alps. In , Hillary participated in a reconnaissance expedition to Everest. Everest Expedition Before , Hillary had become an experienced climber, scaling 11 of the Himalayan peaks that were over 20, feet high. All rights reserved. Portrait of Sir Edmund Hillary.
Here are some of the details of their trek: Hillary was the first man ever to reach the top of Everest. He did so on May 29, at a. He was immediately followed by Tenzing Norgay of Nepal. They were the only two men out of the four-man expedition to successfully make it all the way to the top. Hillary left behind a crucifix and Norgay made a Buddhist offering.
At 29, feet above sea level, these two men were at the highest point on Earth. Fifty years later, Band's memory of the campaign remains undimmed. On such expeditions the leader tends to designate the summit pairs quite late during the expedition, when he sees how everybody is performing.
But never again would the stakes be quite so high. By the spring of , the ascent of the world's highest mountain was beginning to seem inevitable. First attempted in by the British, Everest had repulsed at least ten major expeditions and two lunatic solo attempts. With the discovery of a southern approach to the mountain in newly opened Nepal, and the first ascent of the treacherous Khumbu Icefall the following year, what would come to be known by the s as the "yellow brick road" to the summit had been identified.
At first it seemed the Swiss would claim the prize. In a strong Swiss team that included legendary alpinist Raymond Lambert had pioneered the route up the steep Lhotse Face and reached the South Col. From that high, broad saddle, Lambert and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay then pushed all the way to 28, feet 8, meters on the Southeast Ridge before turning back—probably as high as anyone had ever stood on Earth.
Now the British were determined to bring every possible advantage to their spring offensive—including hiring Tenzing, 38, as their lead Sherpa, or sirdar. Earlier British expeditions, though impressive in their accomplishments, were often charmingly informal in style. Hunt's intricately planned assault, on the other hand, was all business. From the start, the year-old beekeeper Edmund Hillary not yet Sir Edmund was a strong contender for one of the summit slots.
The heavily glaciated peaks of his native New Zealand had proved a perfect training ground for the Himalaya. Hillary earned respect early in the expedition by leading the team that forced a route through the Khumbu Icefall. Still, logistical snafus, the failure of a number of stalwarts to acclimatize, and problems with some of the experimental oxygen sets stalled the expedition badly. The team took a troubling 12 days to retrace the Swiss route on the Lhotse Face in part, perhaps, because the British were not as experienced on difficult ice.
In despair, Hunt began to wonder whether his party would even reach the South Col. The expedition finally gained the col—the vital staging area for a summit push—on May This was late enough to be worrisome, for the monsoon, whose heavy snows would prohibit climbing, could arrive as early as June 1.
Because they became the first men to reach the summit of Everest, Hillary and Tenzing would earn a celebrity that has scarcely faded in 50 years. Hillary later participated in expeditions to the South Pole and was among the first to reach the top of Mount Herschel. He also cultivated resources for the people of Nepal. Although he rose to great heights climbing Mount Everest, Hillary described himself as "a small and rather lonely child. As a young child, the family lived in a small village called Tuakau, where Hillary attended primary school.
His mother, a schoolteacher, wanted her son to attend a city school, so Hillary commuted to the Auckland Grammar School for his secondary education. He was a shy child and studious, often buried in books, but by his late teens had grown to a gangly, towering 6'5". He discovered his love of snow and climbing at age 16 during a school ski trip to Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park.
He studied math and science at the University of Auckland, but he also joined outdoor clubs, which fostered his interest in climbing and holistic health. However, Hillary was determined to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, so he returned to his love of mountain climbing after the war.
Like their father before them, Hillary and his brother Rex became beekeepers, which allowed time to pursue the sport in the winter. He scaled New Zealand's highest peak during the warm season in January
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