Sir Edmund Hillary ... As a boy in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary's fragile appearance belied his ground-breaking potential. At school, he was in a gym group for those lacking co-ordination and admitted ...

A sherpa boy presents Sir Edmund Hillary in 1955 with a petition for a school, which they both worked to build. AP Photo When Sir Edmund turned 50 he resolved to do three things: to build a house ...

Sir Edmund Hillary died on Friday, leaving behind a legacy not only ... health clinics, airfields, and schools. In 1962, Sir Edmund established the Himalayan Trust and spent the following decades and ...

Sir Edmund Hillary, the famed climber and adventurer ... building clinics and no fewer than 17 schools. It was there that he was visited by tragedy, losing his wife and daughter in a plane crash.

Sir Edmund Hillary ... and she knighted Hillary as one of her first act. But he was more proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health clinics in Nepal, the homeland of Tenzing ...

A fine CBS news producer wanted to know if I wanted to interview Sir Edmund Hillary. Silence ... by his raising a small fortune to build schools and hospitals for the families of the sherpas ...

Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who ... he has returned to Nepal year after year to see his Himalayan Trust construct 27 schools, 12 clinics, 2 hospitals, 2 airfields and several dozen ...

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — Sir Edmund Hillary ... and she knighted Hillary as one of her first act. But he was more proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health clinics ...