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Hilary
No, NOT her.
The more famous one. Sir Edmund Hilary, born in 1919, who started out as a beekeeper, and who, on this day in 1953, was the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas.
He had already climbed 20 of the highest peaks in the region before tackling Mount Everest, along [...]
