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Hillary, Sir Edmund
     
Hillary, Sir Edmund
(1919- ) a New Zealand mountain climber who was the first person, with Sherpa Tenzing, to reach the top of Mount Everest in 1953. He also travelled by land to the South Pole in 1958.
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