Wikibooks: New Zealand History/Famous New Zealanders

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; New Zealand; Marsden; Geiger; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/New_Zealand_History/Famous_New_Zealanders

lsaquo [[Back to Mid to Late Twentieth Century]] = Famous New Zealanders = Edmund Hillary On the 29th of May 1953 New Zealander Edmund Hillary became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Nepalese climber Tenzing Norgay (the summit at the time was 29 028 feet above sea level). H...