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Friday, June 28, 2019

Sir Edmund Hillary

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Sir Edmund Hillary 


What’s Orange, Flat and made of plastic? Well that's a 5
dollar note and Sir Edmund Hillary is on it. Ed was the
first person to climb the tallest mountain “Mt Everest”
on the 29th May 1953 with his partner Sherpa Tenzing
Norgay, They had been tackling rocks and had icefaces for
5 hours until 11:30 am they stood on top of Mt Everest.


During the next 50 years of working hard in Nepole. Sherpas
have been taking down trees and Bushes to make space for
the airstrip. He had done a lot of amazing jobs in Nepole. 40
Students had attended the school on the first day, there are
24 schools, 2 Hospital.


Sir Ed was waiting for his sixteen year old daughter Blenda
and his wife Lady Louise sadly they had passed away in a
plane crash. Sir Ed had died on 11 January 2008 at the age
88 from a heart attack in Auckland.

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