http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/11/1199988544993.html
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, has died at the age of 88.
The New Zealander reached the summit of the Himalayan mountain on May 29 1953 alongside the Tibetan-born Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
Go to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7182376.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest#First_successful_ascent_by_Tenzing_and_Hillary
3 comments:
Well I guess he lived a long and happy life since he was famous and he will still be famous for a long time.
P.S. He had a lot of guts to do it for the first time to go againts a challenge like that.
He had alot of guts to climb on mountain like that and i think becouse he did that he lived long life.
Interesting to know.
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