Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountain climber and Antarctic explorer who, with the Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He was knighted in 1953. He also served as New Zealand’s high commissioner to India, Nepal, and Bangladesh from 1985–88. In 2003, Hillary was made an honorary citizen of Nepal.
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