Sir Edmund Hillary dies aged 88
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Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, dies aged 88.
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Sir Angus Ogilvy, the aristrocratic businessman who married the Queen&#39;s cousin but insisted on paying his own mortgage, died yesterday at the age of 76.
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Edmund Hillary, 88, a beekeeper-turned-mountaineer from New Zealand who with his Sherpa guide in 1953 became the first men known to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, died early today at Auckland City Hospital. No cause of death was reported.
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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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Queen Elizabeth II has offered Sir Edmund Hillary's family use of the chapel at her Windsor Castle residence to hold a memorial service for the late mountaineer, her office said Friday.
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New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest and the first to drive a vehicle to the South Pole, described a U.S. highway to the pole as "terrible."
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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, has died. He was 88.
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Arabella Spencer-Churchill, the unconventional granddaughter of Britain's wartime prime minister and a founder of the Glastonbury rock festival, has died at age 58, her husband said.
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Edward Yang, who won best director in 2000 at the Cannes Film Festival and was known for his realistic portrayals of modern Taiwan, has died of complications from colon cancer, a film industry consultant said Sunday. He was 59.
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RIP Prof. Donald Michie and Dame Anne McLaren Bletchley Park code-breaker Professor Donald Michie, 84, and his ex-wife, geneticist Dame Anne McLaren, 80, were killed in a car crash this Saturday.â¦
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Ernest Hofstetter, part of the Swiss team that first traced the route to "The Roof of the World" used by Sir Edmund Hillary to conquer Mount Everest, has died, his son said Friday. He was 95.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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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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Hilda Bernstein, an anti-apartheid activist and author whose husband was tried for treason alongside Nelson Mandela, has died. She was 91.
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Tributes are paid to Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the top of Mount Everest, after he died at 88.
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Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale Mount Everest.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, has died in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.