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= Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and an explorer. On 29 May 1953 Edmund Hillary and = = Tenzing Norgray became the first climbers to have comfirmed that they reached the summit of Mount Everest.Hillary became intrested in mountaineering in secondary school,making his first major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mt Ollivier.He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a navigator during world war ||.Before the 1953 Everest expedition, he had been part of the British reconnaissance expidition to the mountain in 1951, as well as an unsuccessful attempt to climb Cho Oyu in 1952. =