Bila sebut nama Edmund Hillary perkara yang kita ingat adalah dia merupakan pendaki pertama yang tiba di kemuncak Everest. Hillary berjaya tiba puncak Everest pada Mei 29, 1953 bersama Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. Hillary pada ketika itu berusia 33 tahun.
Selain mendaki Everest ada satu lagi kejayaan Hillary yang mungkin tak ramai tahu. Hillary pernah mengetuai pasukan eksplorasi New Zealand ke Antartika. Hillary berjaya tiba di Antartika pada Jan 3, 1958.
Petikan - nz history dot gov link:
On 3 January 1958, Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole, leading a team as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955-58, becoming the third team in history to do so. With Hillary, modern technology had arrived in force in Antarctica, and the dawn of mechanized polar operations had truly come.
Setem kenangan kejayaan Hillary tiba Antartika
(Setem New Zealand keluaran 2008 - tahun kematian Edmund Hillary)
Sir Edmund Hillary's New Zealand team became the first to reach the South Pole overland since Robert Falcon Scott in 1912, and the first to do so in motor vehicles.
Kenderaan traktor yang Hillary guna di Antartika pada 1958
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