Biography of Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary is famous because he was the first man, with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. He was born in 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand, he climbed the Alps when he was 16 years old, and, after reach the Everest, he spent a lot of time raising money to local people in the Everest region. Before hi died in 2008, he said that "It is not the mountain, we conquer ourselves".