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Sir Edmund Hillary dies.

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, who with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, became one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 29th May, 1953, passes away in his native New Zealand at the age of 88.

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