Edward Hillary

World’s First Mount climbers who reach the Everest summit - “Edward Hillary and Tenzing Norgay” in 29 May 1953.

Edward Hillary (1919 – 2008) was explorer, mountaineer and Philanthropist who was born in New Zealand. In 1939, Hillary’s first mount climb attempt in the summit Mount Ollivier, New Zealand. In 1951 and 1953 his attempt was failed to climb the “Cho Oyu mount in Nepal”. In 1953, Edward Hillary accomplished with Nepali Sherpa mountain climber Tenzing Norgay was made a world first successful attempt to the summit of Mount Everest.

Times Magazine published Edward Hillary as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th Century.