New Zealanders lined up to pay respects to mountaineer and adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest.

The son of New Zealand beekeepers, Edmund Hillary developed a love of mountain climbing at a young age. And in the 1950s, he had the opportunity to join British expeditions with the goal of climbing ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand ” Sherpas laid prayer scarves on Sir Edmund Hillary’s coffin as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror Tuesday. An honor guard held ice axes ...

Born in 1919 on the North Island of New Zealand, Edmund Hillary was shy and dreamy in school, but on a school trip to a mountain he discovered that he had considerable endurance.

The family of Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary is urging the mystery buyer of his property in New Zealand to make their identity public amid concerns that the home he built three years after his ...

Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died at the age of 88, made it to the summit of Everest in 1953, and became the first man on the planet to reach its highest point. As a boy in New Zealand, Edmund ...

Sir Edmund Hillary (right), son of a commercial beekeeper in Taukau, New Zealand and one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, died Friday at 88.

After the war the lure of the mountains grew stronger. In 1950 Hillary climbed in the Swiss and Austrian Alps and a year later joined a New Zealand expedition to the Himalayas.

For New Zealanders, Sir Edmund Hillary was the closest thing they had to royalty. For the people of Nepal, he was an adored father figure. Yesterday, at a state funeral in Auckland to bid farewell ...

Sir Edmund Hillary – adventurer, explorer, and philanthropist – has died of a heart attack, age 88.