New Zealand Says Farewell to Hillary

Sherpas laid prayer scarves on Sir Edmund Hillary's coffin as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror Tuesday. An honor guard held ice axes aloft as his casket was carried through their lines.

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Edmund Hillary Stood for Adventure

The first time a climber lays eyes on Everest, it's hard not to imagine what it was like when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay topped out on the world's highest peak shortly before noon on May 29, 1953.

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Edmund Hillary, First Atop Everest, Dies

Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to stand atop the world's highest mountain, was remembered Friday as a deeply driven but unassuming man who strived to help the people of Nepal in the decades after his ascent of Mount Everest.

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Family members of the late Sir Edmund Hillary are upset by a pizza promotion featuring a skeletal animation of the internationally revered New Zealander dancing on a grave.

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Those sexy, fashionable royals

Peter Phillips, son of Britain's Princess Anne, will reportedly renounce his place in the royal line of succession when he marries Autumn Kelly in May.

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The family of New Zealand mountaineering legend, Sir Edmund Hillary, who died last month, will have a private meeting with the Queen after a service in London in April.

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EDMUND HILLARY, short of breath in the freezing wind, took "a few more whacks of the ice ax" and surmounted the top of the world, Mount Everest, as high as anyone can aspire and still be rooted on terra firma.

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Hillary didn't place himself among top mountaineers. "I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm and I'm good on ice," he said.

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Sir Edmund Hillary, was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.

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Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, is in a New Zealand hospital but recovering, his family said on Tuesday.

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The Mt Everest expedition leader criticised for leading his team past a British climber who died on the mountain says the man's parents have "made up their own minds" about what happened that day, and do not blame him.

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Sir Edmund Hillary (who spoke about our fortunate education facilities, in my third grade class) wants the huts of famous South Pole explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Capt Robert Scott maintained by the British government, which refuses.

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