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he was born in Tuakau,Newzeland
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he was sent to Fiji and the Solomon Islands, where in an accident suffered serious burns, after which he was repatriated to New Zealand.
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He was part of an expedition to Everest that was a failure
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he made the first successful ascent to Everest
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Trans Antarctic Expedition of the Commonwealth, being the third expedition to reach the Pole overland in 1911 after Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott in 1912 and the first to achieve this using vehicles.
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they died in a plane crash
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He remarried in June Mulgrew, the widow of a friend
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he died in Auckland,Aged 88 of a heart attack
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In 2008 Lukla Airport near Everest was renamed Tenzing Hillary
