“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.”

About Edmund Hillary

Mountaineer • New Zealander

Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist who gained worldwide fame for his historic achievement. On May 29, 1953, he and Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the...