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Edmund Hillary was born in Auckland.

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Edmund Hillary joined the NZ airforce. He trained to be a navigator.

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Edmund Hillary was sent to Fiji and the Solomon Islands to fight in the air force. But he got badly burnt in a boat incident and returned home shortly after.

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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to climb mount everest taking 16 day to climb and only staying at the peak for 15 minutes before beginning their descent.

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Sir Edmund Hillary is knighted by Queen Elizabeth. He never expected he would get such a big roll for just being the first one to climb Mt Everest. From 1985 to 1988 he was NZ High commissioner to India, Nepal and Bangladash.

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Edmund hillary got married to his 1st wife Louise Mary Rose in auckland. after he admitted to being petrified about proposing to her he relied on his mother to do it on his behalf.

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Edmund hillary had his 1st child Peter. Peter currently is a father of 5 and is a mountaineer who has written 2 books and has climbed Mt Everest 5 times!

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Edmund Hillary's 2nd child, Sarah was born. She is now Principal Conservator at Auckland Art Gallery. She is 67 years old.

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Sir Edmund Hillary has his last child Belinda. She was born in Auckland hospital.

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Edmund Hillary becomes the first man to reach the South Pole overland since 1912 Robert Falcon Scott.

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Edmund builds the very first school in the village of Khumjung to say thank you to his friends who helped make his Himalayan expedition possible.

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Ed and his friends build a water supply in khumjung, which is such a big and immediate help to the village that it causes tears of joy as the water lows out of the pipes for the first time.

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Ed, with the help of many of the local people, constructs the airstrip at Lukla to transport in building
materials for a hospital. Now, the Lukla airstrip is the gateway to the Everest region for visitors and
the second busiest airport in Nepal.

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Five bridges are built across Himalayan rivers, which takes hours off the journeys between villages.

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Kunde Hospital, the first hospital in the region, is completed. For many years it is staffed
by volunteer doctors from New Zealand and Canada.

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In a tragic plane accident Belinda and Louise (Eds wife and 3rd child) died when it crashed shortly after lift off in Kathmandu. They were on their way to Phalphu where Ed was currently helping  building a hospital.

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Edmund helps establish the Sagarmatha National Park Forestry Project to help prevent damage to the forests from an increase in the local population and tourist visitors. New Zealand experts spend several years supporting the project, planting new forest, and helping train local people to manage the National Park.

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At the age of 70 Edmund Hillary remarries to June Mulgrew. They get married in India and lived there too. She is still alive though.

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The Himalayan Trust helps rebuild Tengboche Monastery after it is destroyed in a fire. Most Everest expeditions, including the successful 1953 summit expedition, stop at Tengboche Monastery to be blessed on their way to the mountain.

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The Himalayan Trust starts work to help train primary and secondary teachers working at
schools in the Everest region.

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Dr Kami Temba, who began his education at the school built by Ed in the small village of Thame, becomes the first Nepali doctor to run the Kunde Hospital. Today, the hospital is staffed entirely by Nepali medics.

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Sir edmund hillary dies from heart failure. at age 88 in auckland hospital.