最著名的登山家，1919年生于新西兰的奥克兰，1953年5月29日，和夏尔巴同伴Tenzing首次登顶珠峰 
他回忆道“我们不知道人类是否会登顶世界之巅，所以我们使用了氧气，到了顶峰后，我们也不知道是否能够下来。” 
1958年1月4日，他到达南极，只有不到20英里的油料。 
1975年，他沿着恒河朔源而上，踏上神圣之旅。 
90年代，他环球为联合国儿童署和联合国野生动物保护协会筹资。


The most famous climber ever and forever... Born 1919 in Tuakau, Auckland, New ZEALand. Climbed into immortality on May 29, 1953 together with his SHERPA companion Tenzing, by becoming the first to reach the highest point on earth, Mount Everest, 8,848 metres. Ed has bagged 11 summits in the himalaya, all above 6000 metres.

Ed about his Everest adventure: - "We didn"t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we weren"t at all sure whether we wouldn"t drop dead or something of that nature."

In the later fifties, Ed was invited to partipace in the first mekanized Expedition to the South Pole. On January 4, 1958, Hillary reaches the Pole with just enough petrol for another 20 miles.

In 1975, Hillary travels by jet boat from the mouth of the Ganges to the head waters of the river high in the Himalayas. What is seen by Hillary as merely an adventure is seen by millions of Indians as a pilgrimage.

Throughout the 90s Hillary continues his global fund-raising work for organisations such as UNICEF and the World Wildlife Fund.

His son Peter Hillary, inspired by his father has become a well-known climber, in 1990 he stood on the summit of Mount Everest with the same view his father had seen 37 years earlier.