WELLINGTON: Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world’s highest peak Mount Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, died in hospital in Auckland yesterday, aged 88.
He suffered a sudden heart attack shortly before he was due to be discharged after a period of treatment and had been in “high spirits” and looking forward to going home, a family statement said.
As tributes poured in from around the world, flags flew at half mast in his homeland and it was announced that the man Prime Minister Helen Clark described as the best-known New...
