1, Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest.

2, Sir Edmund Hillary a Rolex when he climbed Mt. Everest in 1953.

3, Sir Edmund Hillary was born on July 20, 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand.

4, After his successful climb, Sir Edmund Hillary went on to explore Antarctica and the South Pole.

5, New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa were the first to ascend to Qomolangma 's summit in 1953. That feat opened Nepal as a popular tourist destination.

6, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest, gave another reason for doing something so dangerous.

7, The shield is named after New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mount Everest, who died in Auckland on January 11 2008.

8, Indeed, many mountaineers, including Everest conquerors Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, reported unshod footprints far larger than human feet dotting snowy trails.

9, Sir Edmund Hillary, who was on the team that first summitted Everest in 1953, called it "horrifying" that climbers would leave a dying man.

10, It was Sir Edmund Hillary, who was born in New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese Sherpa , who reached the summit first, at 11:30 a. m. on May 29, 1953.

11, WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, died in hospital on Friday.

12, Sadly, Sir Edmund Hillary died on January 11, 2008,[http:///sir edmund hillary.html] but his name will forever be celebrated with one of the holiest mountains on Earth—Mount Everest.

13, The ice-pick Mount Everest hero Sir Edmund Hillary used to conquer Everest sits on his casket at St.

14, But as the Levites and Sir Edmund Hillary did, we can refocus when we retire—giving of our time to help others.

15, His father used to climb with British mountaineer Chris Bonnington, and his grandfather, a yak traderwho toured the world with Everest's first summiteer, Sir Edmund Hillary.

16, More than 4,000 climbers have reached the top of Mount Qomolangma since it was first climbed by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa in 1953.

17, As many as 500 climbers are jostling to reach the summit by Thursday, largely using the southeast ridge that took Sir Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, to the top on May 29, 1953.