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Sir Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary is famous because he, and his guide Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to climb Mt Everest, which at 29,028 feet, is the highest mountain in the world. Hillary was born in Auckland in 1919. When he was young, he became interested in mountain climbing and he climbed mountains in New Zealand, Austria and Switzerland, and then in the Himalayas. Hillary has written several books about his life and the things he did. One of his books is called "Nothing Venture, Nothing Win". This means that if you never try anything new, you will never succeed at anything.