Edmund Hillary was born on July 20, 1919, in Auckland, New Zealand, and took up mountain climbing. Although he rose to great heights climbing Mt. Everest, Edmund Hillary described himself as "a small and rather lonely child."
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Sir Edmund Hillary was the first one to get to the summit of Mount Everest and back he was also the first one to get to the 3 poles (North Pole, South Pole and Mount Everest). It just took him 7 months to climb and at 11:30 of May 29 1953