Sir Edmund Hillary Research/Essay

Sir Edmund Hillary Research

By : Faye Ordonez

Starting our paragraph off I will be talking about his life before fame. Edmund Hillary was Born in Auckland, New Zealand on July 20, 1919. Unfortunately he died on 2008, 11th of January at the age of 88 years old. June Hillary and Rex Hillary were Edmund Hillary's two siblings. Percival Augustus Hillary (Dad) and Gertrude Hillary (Mum) were his parents. Percival Augustus Hillary’s occupation was beekeeping, Gertrude Hillary's occupation was teaching kids (She was a teacher). With his brother Rex, Edmund pursued beekeeping like his dad but soon went to work as an air force navigator during world war II, but soon became interested in mountaineering (Which led him to becoming the first person to fully climb Mt. Everest). He chose to climb Mt. Everest because it is his passion and he loved to explore places, he also liked to have a little bit of a challenge every now and then. Unfortunately a few years after climbing Mt. Everest, Edmund and his wife had three beautiful children but both the wife and daughter of Edmund Hillary passed away due to a light aircraft crash accident. 

As we already know Sir Edmund Hillary was known for his incredible achievement which was climbing Mt. Everest, in this paragraph we will be learning about how he succeeded in his goal and journey of becoming a world famous person! Sir Edmund Hillary's passion was Mountaineering, he even climbed many more Mountains considered to be tall! As people should already know, Edmund Hillary was with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing and were the first people to climb Mt. Everest. In fact Mt. Everest is 29,035ft, it is unimaginable that someone from a small country managed to climb everest! Most mountaineers take about 2 months to climb Everest, so it’s a pretty long journey and a hard one considering the conditions up there. Research shows that it took Edmund Hillary 5 months to finish his expedition on climbing the mountain, although it did take him awhile but he still managed to complete his goal! He faced many challenges along the way to get to the top including the 40 foot rock wall that is now called the ‘Hillary's Step’. Because the air was too thin, they had to go back and tell others about their amazing achievement. In Fact Hillary wrote books about his many accomplishments/journeys traveling and exploring the world.

Moving on, we will be talking about what he did after his adventure/expedition to get to the top of Everest. After he climbed Mt. Everest, he continued his passion of climbing many more tall and challenging mountains ( Which probably wasn’t as challenging as Mt. Everest ). As we know Sir Edmund Hillary has become very famous, in fact so famous that even the Queen noticed him! Soon after his achievement the Queen decided to knight him, This gave him the title of ‘Sir’. This is why most people write Sir Edmund Hillary rather than Edmund Hillary. It is clear to tell that New Zealand really appreciated what Sir Edmund Hillary did because they even put him on the 5$ note! He also got a Padma Vibhushan medal, Hubbard medal and Patron’s Gold medal. As you can tell from my research, he got a lot of attention/rewards for climbing this Mountain. In my opinion it was definitely worth it, he not only got recognition/rewards he got respect from New Zealanders and many more people around the world that support him! Although he died his legendary expedition will continue to live on.

I hope you learned a lot of interesting facts from my research, who do you think is the most inspirational New Zealander?