Sir Edmund Hillary has died - Yahoo! News

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.

'Sir Ed ... lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity,' Clark said in a statemen"

...he was more proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health clinics in Nepal, the homeland of Tenzing Norgay...