He included these facts and more!
Sir Edmund Hillary
·
Sir Edmund Hillary
was an explorer and mountain climber
· He was the first to climb Mount Everest, the
tallest mountain in the world with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
Childhood
· Sir Ed was born in Auckland on 20th July 1919
· He started climbing when he was 16 years old
· He climbed his first large mountain when he was
20 and continued exploring and climbing mountains
The Everest Expedition
· 400 people were in the group to climb Mt Everest
Climbing Everest
· To climb
the mountain, they did it in stages
· It helped
them to get use to the height and air
· But at
each stage, not every one carried on
Hillary’s Step
· On 29 May 1953 Sir Ed and Tenzing got their
chance to climb to the top of the mountain
· But the biggest problem they had was a huge rock
wall
·
They needed to climb
the rock wall to get to the top
·
The rock wall is now
named Hillary’s Step
The Top of the Mountain
· Sir Ed
and Tenzing made it to the top of
the mountain
· But they could only stay for a few minutes
because the air is thin
· The thin air makes it hard to breathe
After Everest
· After climbing Mt Everest Sir Ed went to the
South Pole in 1958
· They were the third group to go to the South
Pole
· But they were the first one’s to use motor
vehicles to do it
New Zealand Air Force
·
Sir Ed was also a
navigator with the New Zealand Royal Air Force during World War 2
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth
· The Queen
made him a knight
· That is
why we call him Sir
Sir Edmund’s Books
· Sir Ed wrote books about his adventures
High Adventure
No Latitude for Error
The Crossing of Antarctica
New Zealand $5
note
· Sir Ed Hillary is on New Zealand’s five dollar
note
