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| 1919 | Birth |  |
| 20th July Auckland Zealand Birth of Edmund Percival Hillary
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| 1939 | Mount Oliver | |
| 20th July Mount Oliver Zealand Completes his first major climb, reaching the summit of Mount Oliver in the Southern Alps
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| 1951 | Mount Everest | |
| Everest Zealand Hillary is part of a British reconnaissance expedition to Everest led by Eric Shipton before joining the successful British attempt of 1953
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| 1953 | Knighthood | |
| Knighted shortly after the British-led Everest expedition arrives back in London
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| 1953 | Mount Everest | |
| 29th May Everest Zealand Edmund Hillary & fellow New Zealander George Lowe (lifelong friend and first Chairman of The Himalayan Trust UK) join Lord Hunt's British Expedition to Mount Everest
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| 29th May Everest Zealand Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay become the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, they are part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt
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| 29th May Everest Zealand Hillary takes Tenzing's photo, Tenzing leaves chocolates in the snow as an offering, and Hillary leaves a cross, because Tenzing did not know how to use a camera, there are no pictures of Hillary
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| 29th May Everest Zealand In the dark of the morning of 29th May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay set off set off from Camp IX at 27,900', then past the South Summit, the highest point so far reached, and pushed on towards the summit at 29,028
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| 29th May Everest Zealand Joins a trip led by the British climber Sir John Hunt up the southwest ridge, by the latter stages, all but two climbers were defeated by exhaustion, and only Sir Edmund and Norgay were able to continue to the summit
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| 29th May Everest Zealand Looks for signs of George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine who had disappeared in 1924 in a similar attempt to conquer Everest, but find nothing
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| 29th May Everest Zealand Returning to base camp, Hillary had irreverently remarks, "We knocked the bastard off"
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| 29th May Everest Zealand The crucial move of the last part of the ascent is the 40-foot rock face later named the "Hillary Step"
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| 1958 | Commonwealth | |
| 4th Jan South Pole Zealand Reaches the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, for which he led the New Zealand section
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| 1958 | South Pole | |
| 4th Jan South Pole Zealand First to reach the Pole since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912, the first motor vehicles to reach the Pole
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| 4th Jan South Pole Zealand Reaches the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, for which he led the New Zealand section
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| 1975 | Citizens for Rowling | |
| Takes part in the 1975 general election, as a member of the "Citizens for Rowling" campaign.
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| 1975 | Election | |
| Takes part in the 1975 general election, as a member of the "Citizens for Rowling" campaign.
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| 1977 | River Ganges | |
| 4th Jan River Ganges Zealand Leads a jetboat expedition, titled "Ocean to Sky", from the mouth of the Ganges River to its source
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| 1985 | Ambassador | |
| New Delhi Zealand Appointed New Zealand High Commissioner (Ambassador) to India, Nepal and Bangladesh, and spends four and a half years based in New Delhi
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| 1985 | North Pole | |
| North Pole Zealand Accompanies Neil Armstrong in a small twin-engined ski plane over the Arctic Ocean and lands at the North Pole becoming the first man to stand at both poles and on the summit of Everest
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| 1987 | ONZ | |
| 18th Jan Created a member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ)
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| 1995 | KG | |
| 22nd April Created a Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG)
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| 1995 | Polar Medal | |
| Awarded the Polar Medal for his part in the Commonwealth Tran-Arctic Expedition
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| 2003 | Commonwealth | |
| South Pole Zealand Committed to humanitarian work among the Sherpas through his Himalayan Trust and is made an honorary Nepalese citizen
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| 2007 | KBE | |
| 18th Jan Created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
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| 2007 | Scott Base | |
| Travels to Antarctica to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Scott Base
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| 18th Jan Calls for the British government to contribute to the upkeep of Scott's and Shackleton's huts
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| 2008 | Death | |
| 11th Jan Death of Edmund Percival Hillary
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| 11th Jan Hillary's death is announced by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark during which she states that his passing was a "profound loss to New Zealand"
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