Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88
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Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
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Sherpas laid prayer scarves on Sir Edmund Hillary's coffin as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror Tuesday. An honor guard held ice axes aloft as his casket was carried through their lines.
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Comment is free: Tim Watkin: Sir Edmund Hillary's rare greatness derives from much more than his ascent of Mount Everest
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Nepal's Sherpa community was plunged into mourning Friday over the death of Sir Edmund Hillary, a "second father" to a people whose sacred peak Everest he became the first man to conquer in 1953.
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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last âgiant leap for mankindâ of pre-space-age generations.
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Nepal remembers one of its great champions, Sir Edmund Hillary, joint first conqueror of Mount Everest.
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L'alpinista ed esploratore neozelandese si Ã¨ spento all'etÃ  di 88 anniNel 1953 aveva raggiunto la cima, a quota 8.850, con lo sherpa Tenzing Norgay                                          E' morto Edmund Hillary il primo a scalare l'Everest
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New Zealand paid tribute Tuesday to Everest hero Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to stand on the roof of the world, at a rare state funeral beamed live to the Himalayas where he made his name.
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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. He was 88.
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Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president, died on Thursday aged 88 after a short but severe illness, the Austrian presidency and a family spokesman said.
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Hundreds of New Zealanders paid their last respects to Edmund Hillary on Monday, ahead of a state funeral for the first man to stand atop Mount Everest.
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Saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Nepali Sherpas and grey-bearded mountaineers paid homage on Tuesday to Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Everest, as thousands gathered in New Zealand to watch his state funeral.
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Famed explorer Sir Edmund Hillary led a life of 'determination, humility and generosity'
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Nepal's Sherpas went into mourning Thursday at the death of Sir Edmund Hillary and pledged to ensure his legacy lives on in the community he has helped since the first conquest of Everest in 1953.
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A Canadian woman credited with helping to save an ailing fellow climber on Mount Everest was honored Monday by Nepal's mountaineering community.
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Nepal has named an airport in the remote Everest region after pioneering climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953.
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Suharto, the U.S. Cold War ally who led one of the 20th century's most brutal dictatorships over 32 years that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.