<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525516585167937133</id><updated>2009-11-08T09:04:22.965-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Himalman</title><subtitle type='html'>Great tops for everyone!... Motto of my life... my destination - Everest , come and visit my adventure world :) Everest to blog o wyprawie na dach świta o marzeniu .. o zdobywcach, himalaistach, wyprawach, trekkingu, podróżach na koniec świata..</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://himalman.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6525516585167937133/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://himalman.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>himalman</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525516585167937133.post-4721217355421019172</id><published>2008-01-21T16:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-22T07:42:28.718-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Edmund Hillary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sherpa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Everest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mountaineer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tenzing Norgay'/><title type='text'>Everest legend - Edmund Hillary.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a set="yes" linkindex="222" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-SfPZd6H_g8/R4dnRLihl0I/AAAAAAAAD1o/yWePQCFakvI/s1600-h/20080110xhillarytenzing.jpg" class="snap_noshots"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-SfPZd6H_g8/R4dnRLihl0I/AAAAAAAAD1o/yWePQCFakvI/s400/20080110xhillarytenzing.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" border="0" height="243" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="newstext"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Everest legend Edmund Hillary has died at the age of 88.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="newstext"&gt;This is a big loss to the world of exploration, Hillary’s family and also to Himalaya chronicler Elizabeth Hawley, 83, who remained one of Hillary’s closest friends since his great Everest ascent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Full story : &lt;a linkindex="223" href="http://www.mounteverest.net/"&gt;http://www.mounteverest.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edmund Hillary has passed away, taking a big chunk of Everest history with him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sir Edmund Percival Hillary&lt;/b&gt;,(&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;July 20&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1919&lt;/span&gt; – &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;January 11&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt;) was a &lt;a linkindex="224" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand" class="snap_shots"&gt;New Zealand&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a linkindex="225" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaineering" title="Mountaineering" class="snap_shots"&gt;mountaineer&lt;/a&gt; and explorer. On &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;29 May&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1953&lt;/span&gt; at the age of 33, he and &lt;a linkindex="226" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherpa" title="Sherpa" class="snap_shots"&gt;Sherpa&lt;/a&gt; mountaineer &lt;a linkindex="227" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/tenzing-norgay-the-most-famous-sherpa-version-polish-and-english/" target="_blank"&gt;Tenzing Norgay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a linkindex="228" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/tenzing-norgay-the-most-famous-sherpa-version-polish-and-english/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; became the &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;first climbers&lt;/span&gt; known to have reached the summit of &lt;a linkindex="229" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest" title="Mount Everest" class="snap_shots"&gt;Mount Everest&lt;/a&gt;. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by &lt;a linkindex="230" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hunt%2C_Baron_Hunt" title="John Hunt, Baron Hunt" class="snap_shots"&gt;John Hunt&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Hillary was part of a &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;British&lt;/span&gt; reconnaissance expedition to Everest in 1951 led by &lt;a linkindex="231" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Shipton" title="Eric Shipton" class="snap_shots"&gt;Eric Shipton&lt;/a&gt; before joining the successful British attempt of 1953.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In 1952 Hillary and George Lowe were part of the British team led by Eric Shipton that attempted &lt;a linkindex="232" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho_Oyu" title="Cho Oyu" class="snap_shots"&gt;Cho Oyu&lt;/a&gt;. After that attempt failed due to the lack of route from the Nepal side, Hillary and Lowe crossed the Lho-La into Tibet and reached the old Camp II, on the northern side, where all the pre-war expeditions camped.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;After Everest :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Hillary climbed ten other peaks in the &lt;a linkindex="233" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya" title="Himalaya" class="snap_shots"&gt;Himalayas&lt;/a&gt; on further visits in 1956, 1960–61&lt;a set="yes" linkindex="234" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Edmund-Hillary.web.jpg" title="Edmund Hillary in 1957 after accompanying the first plane to land at the Marble Point ground air strip, Antarctica" class="imagesnap_shots snap_noshots"&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Edmund-Hillary.web.jpg/200px-Edmund-Hillary.web.jpg" class="thumbimage" alt="Edmund Hillary in 1957 after accompanying the first plane to land at the Marble Point ground air strip, Antarctica" align="right" border="0" height="272" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and 1963–65. He also reached the &lt;a linkindex="235" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole" title="South Pole" class="snap_shots"&gt;South Pole&lt;/a&gt; as part of the &lt;a linkindex="236" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition" title="Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition" class="snap_shots"&gt;Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition&lt;img src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt ! important; padding: 1px 0pt 0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; float: none; position: static; left: auto; top: auto; line-height: normal; background-image: url(http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/theme/silver/palette.gif); background-color: transparent; width: 14px; height: 12px; background-position: -944px 0pt; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; vertical-align: top; display: inline;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, for which he led the New Zealand section, on &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt; January&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1958&lt;/span&gt;. His party was the first to reach the Pole overland since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912, and the first ever to do so using motor vehicles. In 1977, he led a &lt;a linkindex="237" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetboat" title="Jetboat" class="snap_shots"&gt;jetboat&lt;/a&gt; expedition, titled “Ocean to Sky”, from the mouth of the &lt;a linkindex="238" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_River" title="Ganges River" class="snap_shots"&gt;Ganges River&lt;/a&gt; to its source.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In 1979, as he had done previously, Hillary was scheduled to act as a commentator on the ill-fated &lt;a linkindex="239" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901" title="Air New Zealand Flight 901" class="snap_shots"&gt;Air New Zealand Flight 901&lt;/a&gt;, an Antarctic sightseeing flight, but had to pull out due to work commitments elsewhere. He was replaced by his close friend Peter Mulgrew, who perished as the aircraft crashed on &lt;a linkindex="240" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus" title="Mount Erebus" class="snap_shots"&gt;Mount Erebus&lt;/a&gt;, killing all 257 on board.&lt;sup&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;He later married Mulgrew’s widow.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hillary took part in the &lt;a set="yes" linkindex="241" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_general_election%2C_1975" title="New Zealand general election, 1975" class="snap_shots"&gt;1975 general election&lt;/a&gt;, as a member of the “&lt;a linkindex="242" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Rowling" title="Citizens for Rowling" class="snap_shots"&gt;Citizens for Rowling&lt;/a&gt;” campaign. His involvement in this campaign was seen as precluding his nomination as Governor-General, with the position instead being offered to &lt;a linkindex="243" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Holyoake" title="Keith Holyoake" class="snap_shots"&gt;Keith Holyoake&lt;img src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt ! important; padding: 1px 0pt 0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; float: none; position: static; left: auto; top: auto; line-height: normal; background-image: url(http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/theme/silver/palette.gif); background-color: transparent; width: 14px; height: 12px; background-position: -944px 0pt; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; vertical-align: top; display: inline;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in 1977. However, in 1985 he was appointed New Zealand &lt;a linkindex="244" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_High_Commissioners_from_New_Zealand_to_India" title="List of High Commissioners from New Zealand to India" class="snap_shots"&gt;High Commissioner&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a linkindex="245" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India" class="snap_shots"&gt;India&lt;/a&gt; (concurrently High Commissioner to &lt;a linkindex="246" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh" class="snap_shots"&gt;Bangladesh&lt;/a&gt; and Ambassador to &lt;a linkindex="247" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal" class="snap_shots"&gt;Nepal&lt;/a&gt;) and spent four and a half years based in &lt;a linkindex="248" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi" class="snap_shots"&gt;New Delhi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In 1985 he accompanied &lt;a set="yes" linkindex="249" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong" class="snap_shots"&gt;Neil Armstrong&lt;/a&gt; in a small twin-engined ski plane over the &lt;a linkindex="250" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Ocean" title="Arctic Ocean" class="snap_shots"&gt;Arctic Ocean&lt;/a&gt; and landed at the &lt;a linkindex="251" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole" title="North Pole" class="snap_shots"&gt;North Pole&lt;/a&gt;. He thus became the first man to stand at both poles and on the summit of Everest.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In January 2007, Hillary travelled to Antarctica to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of &lt;a linkindex="252" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Base" title="Scott Base" class="snap_shots"&gt;Scott Base&lt;/a&gt;. He flew to the station on &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;18 January&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt; with a delegation including the Prime Minister. While there he called for the British government to contribute to the upkeep of &lt;a linkindex="253" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott" title="Robert Falcon Scott" class="snap_shots"&gt;Scott’s&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a linkindex="254" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton" title="Ernest Shackleton" class="snap_shots"&gt;Shackleton’s&lt;/a&gt; huts.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;On &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;22 April&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt; while on a trip to Kathmandu he is reported to have suffered a fall. There was no comment on the nature of his illness and he did not immediately seek treatment. He was hospitalized after returning to New Zealand.&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Philanthropy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Following his ascent of Everest he devoted much of his life to helping the &lt;a set="yes" linkindex="255" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherpa_%28people%29" title="Sherpa (people)" class="snap_shots"&gt;Sherpa&lt;/a&gt; people of Nepal through the &lt;a linkindex="256" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_Trust" title="Himalayan Trust" class="snap_shots"&gt;Himalayan Trust&lt;/a&gt;, which he founded. Through his efforts many schools and hospitals were built in this remote region of the &lt;a linkindex="257" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya" title="Himalaya" class="snap_shots"&gt;Himalayas&lt;/a&gt;. He was the Honorary President of the &lt;a linkindex="258" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Himalayan_Foundation" title="American Himalayan Foundation" class="snap_shots"&gt;American Himalayan Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a set="yes" linkindex="259" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" class="snap_shots"&gt;United States&lt;/a&gt; non-profit body that helps improve the &lt;a linkindex="260" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology" title="Ecology" class="snap_shots"&gt;ecology&lt;/a&gt; and living conditions in the Himalayas.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hillary spoke of his disdain for the attitudes displayed by many modern mountaineers. In particular he publicly criticized New Zealander &lt;a linkindex="261" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Inglis" title="Mark Inglis" class="snap_shots"&gt;Mark Inglis&lt;/a&gt; and 40 other climbers who, in various groups, left British climber &lt;a linkindex="262" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sharp" title="David Sharp" class="snap_shots"&gt;David Sharp&lt;/a&gt; to die in May 2006. He said:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div&gt;I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top, it was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say good morning and pass on by.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;He also told the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a linkindex="263" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Herald" title="New Zealand Herald" class="snap_shots"&gt;New Zealand Herald&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; that he was horrified by the callous attitude of today’s climbers:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div&gt;They don’t give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn’t impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;I invite on viewing of  gallery of photo…. Discovering Mt Everest &lt;span class="translate"&gt;with photos from expedition from 1953 -year - Edmund Hillary summit Everest &lt;/span&gt; : &lt;a linkindex="264" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/himalman/OdkrywanieEverestu" target="_blank" class="popup"&gt;Album - Summit of Mt. Everst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="translate"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edmund Hillary, nowozelandzki himalaista, który przeszedł do historii jako pierwszy zdobywca Mount Everest, zmarł w piątek w wieku 88 lat - powiadomiła ze smutkiem premier Nowej Zelandii Helen Clark.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; Legendarny alpinista, poszukiwacz przygód i filantrop był najbardziej znanym Nowozelandczykiem, jaki kiedykolwiek żył - oznajmiła Clark.&lt;img src="http://www.goryonline.com/upload/Image/aktualnosci/Hillary.jpg" alt="Edmund Hillary po zdobyciu Everestu" align="right" height="198" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;Edmund Hillary &lt;b&gt;dokonał pionierskiego wejścia na Mount Everest&lt;/b&gt; wraz z Szerpą &lt;a linkindex="265" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/tenzing-norgay-the-most-famous-sherpa-version-polish-and-english/" target="_blank" class="popup"&gt;Tenzingiem Norgayem&lt;/a&gt; 29 maja 1953 r. “Załatwiliśmy skurczybyka” powiedział do towarzyszy eskapady po zejściu ze szczytu, a dzięki relacji BBC słowa te usłyszał cały świat. W szeregu wielkich poszukiwaczy przygód stawiają go również inne wyczyny: zdobył m.in. oba bieguny i pokonał łodzią motorową rzekę Ganges od jej ujścia aż do źródeł.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hillary&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;znany był również ze swej działalności filantropijnej, która koncentrowała się wokół założonego przez niego funduszu powierniczego &lt;b&gt;Himalayan Trust&lt;/b&gt;, prowadzącego akcje pomocy dla Szerpów.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Pośród licznych wyróżnień, Hillary miał na swym koncie również Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, którym w 2004 r. odznaczył go prezydent Aleksander Kwaśniewski.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;Sir&lt;/span&gt; Edmund Percival Hillary&lt;/b&gt; (ur. &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;20 lipca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1919&lt;/span&gt; w &lt;a linkindex="266" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tuakau&amp;amp;action=edit" title="Tuakau" class="new"&gt;Tuakau&lt;/a&gt; koło &lt;a linkindex="267" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_%28miasto%29" title="Auckland (miasto)" class="snap_shots"&gt;Auckland&lt;/a&gt;, zm. &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;11 stycznia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt; w &lt;a linkindex="268" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland" class="snap_shots"&gt;Auckland&lt;/a&gt;) – &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;nowozelandzki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;himalaista&lt;/span&gt; i polarnik, z zawodu pszczelarz.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;W latach &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1951&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1952&lt;/span&gt; uczestnik trzech wypraw himalajskich. &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;29 maja&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1953&lt;/span&gt; zdobył, jako pierwszy człowiek w historii, wraz z &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;Szerpą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a linkindex="269" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/tenzing-norgay-the-most-famous-sherpa-version-polish-and-english/" target="_blank" class="popup"&gt;Tenzingiem Norgayem&lt;/a&gt;, szczyt &lt;a linkindex="270" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest" title="Mount Everest" class="snap_shots"&gt;Mount Everest&lt;/a&gt; (8850 m).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Do historii przeszły jego słowa “&lt;i&gt;Załatwiliśmy skurczybyka!&lt;/i&gt;” (&lt;i&gt;We finally knocked the bastard off.&lt;/i&gt;) - wypowiedziane po zejściu ze szczytu Everestu. Nie przypuszczał nawet, że za pośrednictwem &lt;a linkindex="271" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" class="snap_shots"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt; usłyszał je cały świat.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Za swój wyczyn został uhonorowany przez królową angielską &lt;a linkindex="272" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C5%BCbieta_II" title="Elżbieta II" class="snap_shots"&gt;Elżbietę II&lt;/a&gt; tytułem szlacheckim. Natomiast &lt;a linkindex="273" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowa_Zelandia" title="Nowa Zelandia" class="snap_shots"&gt;Nowa Zelandia&lt;/a&gt; umieściła podobiznę Hillary’ego na pięciodolarowym banknocie. Był pierwszą osobą umieszczoną na banknocie za życia.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;W &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1954&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1967&lt;/span&gt; r. kierował wyprawami nowozelandzkimi w &lt;a linkindex="274" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaje" title="Himalaje" class="snap_shots"&gt;Himalaje&lt;/a&gt; i na &lt;a linkindex="275" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarktyda" title="Antarktyda" class="snap_shots"&gt;Antarktydę&lt;/a&gt;. W trakcie ekspedycji zorganizowanej w ramach Międzynarodowego Roku Geofizyki (&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1955&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1958&lt;/span&gt;) dotarł &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;3 stycznia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1958&lt;/span&gt; r. do &lt;a linkindex="276" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biegun_po%C5%82udniowy" title="Biegun południowy" class="snap_shots"&gt;bieguna południowego&lt;/a&gt; i przeszedł w poprzek Antarktydę. Następnie przeszedł do nowozelandzkiej służby dyplomatycznej, którą pełnił do &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1989&lt;/span&gt; r.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;W &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1960&lt;/span&gt; r. założył fundusz powierniczy - Himalayan Trust, który prowadzi akcje pomocy dla Szerpów. Dzięki działalności funduszu w himalajskich wioskach wybudowano dla Szerpów 27 szkół, 2 szpitale, 12 ośrodków zdrowia, mosty, wodociągi, a nawet małe lotniska.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Został honorowym obywatelem &lt;a set="yes" linkindex="277" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal" class="snap_shots"&gt;Nepalu&lt;/a&gt;. Tam też zginęła jego żona.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Podczas wizyty w Polsce w czerwcu 2004 r. został odznaczony przez &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;Prezydenta RP&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a linkindex="278" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kwa%C5%9Bniewski" title="Aleksander Kwaśniewski" class="snap_shots"&gt;Aleksandra Kwaśniewskiego&lt;/a&gt; Krzyżem Komandorskim &lt;a linkindex="279" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_Zas%C5%82ugi_Rzeczypospolitej_Polskiej" title="Order Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej" class="snap_shots"&gt;Orderu Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Edmund Hillary jest autorem licznych książek m.in. &lt;i&gt;The Ascent of Everest&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;High Adventure&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1955&lt;/span&gt;), &lt;i&gt;Schoolhouse in the Clouds&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1965&lt;/span&gt;), autobiografii &lt;i&gt;Nothing Venture, Nothing Win&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1975&lt;/span&gt;), &lt;i&gt;From the Ocean to the Sky&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;1979&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Zmarł wskutek &lt;a linkindex="280" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niewydolno%C5%9B%C4%87_serca" title="Niewydolność serca" class="snap_shots"&gt;niewydolności serca&lt;/a&gt;, w piątek &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;11 stycznia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="snap_shots"&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt;, ok. godz. 9 czasu nowozelandzkiego, w szpitalu w &lt;a set="yes" linkindex="281" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland" class="snap_shots"&gt;Auckland&lt;img src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt ! important; padding: 1px 0pt 0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; float: none; position: static; left: auto; top: auto; line-height: normal; background-image: url(http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.10.2/theme/silver/palette.gif); background-color: transparent; width: 14px; height: 12px; background-position: -944px 0pt; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; vertical-align: top; display: inline;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Informacja o jego śmierci została podana publicznie przez premiera Nowej Zelandii ok. godz. 11:20.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* zobacz : &lt;a set="yes" linkindex="282" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/himalman/OdkrywanieEverestu" target="_blank" class="popup"&gt;Album - Zdobywanie Mt. 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