Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (died 2008)

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.

annonce qu'Edmund Hillary et Tensing Norgay sont les premiers hommes à avoir atteint le sommet de l'Everest montagne la plus haute du monde terrestre émergé quatre jours auparavant.

Snow and wind held the pair up at the South Col for two days. They set out on 28 May with a support trio of Lowe, Alfred Gregory and Ang Nyima. The two pitched a tent at 27,900 feet (8,500 m) on 28 May while their support group returned down the mountain. On the following morning Hillary discovered that his boots had frozen solid outside the tent. He spent two hours warming them before he and Tenzing attempted the final ascent wearing 30-pound (14 kg) packs. The crucial move of the last part of the ascent was the 40-foot (12 m) rock face later named the "Hillary Step". Hillary saw a means to wedge his way up a crack in the face between the rock wall and the ice and Tenzing followed. From there the following effort was relatively simple. Tenzing Norgay stated in his narration "The Dream Comes True" that Hillary had indeed taken the first step atop Mount Everest, despite Hillary quoting that both had reached the summit at the same time. They reached Everest's 29,028 ft (8,848 m) summit, the highest point on earth, at 11:30 am. As Hillary put it, "A few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow, and we stood on top.” They spent only about 15 minutes at the summit. Hillary took the famous photo of Tenzing posing with his ice-axe, but since Tenzing had never used a camera, Hillary's ascent went unrecorded. However, according to Tenzing's autobiography Man of Everest, when Tenzing offered to take Hillary's photograph Hillary declined: "I motioned to Hillary that I would now take his picture. But for some reason he shook his head; he did not want it." Tenzing left chocolates in the snow as an offering and Hillary left a cross that he had been given by John Hunt. Additional photos were taken looking down the mountain in order to confirm that they had made it to the top and that the ascent was not faked. The two had to take care on the descent after discovering that drifting snow had covered their tracks, complicating the task of retracing their steps. The first person they met was Lowe, who had climbed up to meet them with hot soup.

Mount-Everest-Bezwinger Sir Edmund Hillary erreicht mit einer neuseeländischen Antarktis-Expedition den Südpol. Es ist die weltweit dritte Expedition, die an diesen Punkt vorstößt.

Die Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition unter dem Polarforscher Vivian Fuchs und mit Edmund Hillary trifft in Scott Base ein. Sie hat den antarktischen Kontinent durchquert und dabei in 99 Tagen 3440 km zurückgelegt.

una expedición neozelandesa, dirigida por Edmund Hillary, llega al polo sur.

New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (b. 1919)