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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Edmund Hillary
Born: July 20, 1919
Died: January 11, 2008 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Known for:
- High Adventure (1955)
- Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (1975)
- From the Ocean to the Sky (1979)
- The crossing of Antarctica (1958)
- Sir Edmund Hillary's Sagarmatha
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