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Biography "Sir Edmund Hillary"

Your Biography Assessment = media type="youtube" key="xEFvaE_4W3Q?fs=1" height="385" width="480" = Sir Edmund Hillary

He was bornon the 20th of July1919 in Auckland, New Zealand. He become interested in mountain climbing while in high school. Sir Edmund Hillary work as a commercial beekeeper, in the summer months to allow him to climb mountain in the winter months.

During WW2 in 1943 he joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a navigator and seved on catalina flying boats. in 1945 he was sent to Fiji and to the solomon islands were he was badly burned in a boating accident. Sir Edmund Hillary married Louise Mary Rose on the 3rd sept 1953 they had three children but his wife a one of his children died in a plane crash in 1975, at a catmando air strip.

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to successfully climb to the summit of Mt. Everest. on the 29th of may, 1953, at the age of 33. Along with sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay. He was scared many time during the climb. It took his 7 weeks to reach the top of Everest. Some More Info Hillary's Courage Bibliography  MY BIOGRAPHY ON "SIR EDMUND HILLARY"!