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Noun: Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
  1. New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (1919-2008)
    - Hillary, Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary

Type of: mountain climber, mountaineer

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