Sir Edmund Hillary Dies at 88

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6:41 p.m. on January 10, 2008 (EST)

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Sir Edmund Hillary Dies at 88

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photo:Graeme Mulholland From the AP: Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win ...

5:04 p.m. on January 16, 2008 (EST)

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Re: Sir Edmund Hillary Dies at 88

For those interested, here are a few more articles on Hillary, as recommended by climbing.com:

Britain’s Telegraph has an excellent summary of Hillary’s life and accomplishments: www.telegraph.co.uk.

English climbing author Jim Perrin has published a perceptive obituary at Guardian Unlimited: www.guardian.co.uk.

Hillary was always quotable (“We knocked the bastard off”), and The New Zealand Herald has collected some of his best lines: www.nzherald.co.nz.

Read the June 2, 1953, news story about the first ascent of Mt. Everest at Guardian Unlimited: www.guardian.co.uk.

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