Sir Edmund Hillary
Famous People Homework Project by Benjamin King
- Sir Edmund was the first man to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
- He was from New Zealand.
- Mount Everest can be found in the Himalayan mountains in Nepal.
- Sir Edmund was the leader of a large British expedition party to Everest in 1953.
- Everest is 8848m high.
- He was helped by a local guide called Tenzing Norgay, a sherpa from Nepal.
- In 1985 he landed in a plane at the North Pole, with Neil Armstrong.
- He became the first man to have stood at the North and South poles and the summit (top) of Everest.
