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He was born on July 20 in Auckland, NZ. Before his name was “Sir Edmund Hillary” it was Edmund Percival Hillary. His Father was Percival Augustus Hillary, but he was called Percy. His mother was Gertrude Hillary and her maiden name was Clark. -
His family moved to Tuakau, a really small town in the south of Auckland. His father was sent to eight acres of land to come back as a soldier of the 15th regiment. -
When he was 16, Hillary went on a school trip to Mount Ruapehu. That was when he got interested in mountains. -
When he was 20, he climbed his first major mountain. He reached the peak of Mt Oliver in the Canterbury region. It was 6342 feet which is about 1933 meters. -
He is enrolled to join the New Zealand Air Force for World War II. -
He got into a bad accident in Fiji while in the Air Force. He got burnt pretty badly. -
Sir Edmund Hillary climbs Mt. Cook for the first time. -
Sir Edmund Hillary traveled to Europe and climbed the Swiss Alps and the Austrian Alps. -
He was a member of an expedition that went to the Himalayas. -
He was part of a British team that climbed up the sixth highest mountain in the world called Cho Oyu in Asia. In English it means Turquoise Goddess. -
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mt. Everest. He was also knighted by the Queen and became “Sir Edmund Hillary”. That year he also married Louise Rose. -
His book was published. It was called High Adventure which was a biography. -
He led a team to the South Pole. -
Edmund Hillary comes back to the Himalayas to search for a mythical yeti. -
He tried his very best to climb Mt. Makalu without having any oxygen. -
His wife and youngest daughter Belinda died in a plane crash near Kathmandu Airport. -
Hillary took part in an election as part of the citizen of a rowling campaign. -
A group of explorers follows him to discover the route of the Ganga rivers to the Himalayas. -
He becomes New Zealand’s High Commissioner to India. He also flew with Neil Armstrong to the North Pole. -
His sherpa friend Tenzing Norgay died. -
He marries June Mulgrew -
His son Peter climbs to the summit of Mt. Everest. -
Sir Edmund Hillary’s face appears on the New Zealand $5 note. -
He was chosen to lead an Antarctic group for New Zealand. -
His statue was placed in Mt. Cook Village in New Zealand in 2003. -
Sir Edmund Hillary died because of heart problems. He died at the age of 88. -
Sir Edmund Hillary was farewelled at his State funeral at St Mary's Church in Parnell, Auckland, on 22 January 2008. -
In the Waitakere Ranges, the Hillary trail was open in Edmund Hillary’s honor.