EDMUND HILLARY, FIRST ATOP EVEREST, DIES.

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manusia pertama yang sampai ke kemuncak gunung everest, sir edmund hillary telah meninggal dunia.



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Edmund Hillary, first atop Everest, dies


GTON, New Zealand - Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.

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Everest conqueror Hillary dies: New Zealand PM




Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain Mount Everest, died early Friday at the age of 88, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said.
"He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity," she said.

Clark said the passing of Hillary was a profound loss for New Zealand.

"The legendary mountaineer, adventurer, and philanthropist is the best-known New Zealander ever to have lived," she said.

"But most of all he was a quintessential Kiwi. He was ours - from his craggy appearance and laconic style to his directness and honesty. All New Zealanders will deeply mourn his passing."

She paid tribute to Hillary's work later in his life to support development for the Sherpa people of the Himalayas, building schools and hospitals.

"His lifetime's humanitarian work there is of huge significance and lasting benefit."

News of the success of the British-led expedition to Everest was announced to the public on the day of Queen Elizabeth's coronation on June 2.

After Everest, Hillary embarked on another great adventure in 1957, establishing Scott Base in Antarctica and leading the first vehicles overland to the South Pole on January 3, 1958.

"The legacy of Sir Edmund Hillary will live on. His exploits continue to inspire new generations of New Zealanders, as they have for more than half a century already," Clark said.

His words to friend and expedition colleague George Lowe as he and Tenzing descended from the Everest summit to base camp after their successful climb, have become the most famous he ever spoke.

"George said `Well how did it go?' and I said, `Well George, we knocked the b.astard off'," he recalled in a later autobiography.





takziah pada keluarga sir hillary; aku dengar anak dia pun pakar daki gunung juga.

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Manusia pertama tawan Everest meninggal dunia

WELLINGTON 11 Jan.

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Pendaki Everest  pertama mati

                                   Hillary sampai ke puncak gunung pada 29 Mei, 1953


WELLINGTON: Sir Edmund Hillary, pendaki pertama yang berjayamenawan kemuncak Gunung Everest dan dikenali sebagai antara pengembarautama abad ke-20, meninggal dunia semalam pada usia 88 tahun akibatserangan jantung.

Beliau yang juga rakyat New Zealand, turut mengetuai ekspedisipertama menjejakkan kaki di Kutub Selatan dengan menaiki kenderaan -kejayaan kedua yang dicatat empat tahun selepas menawan Everest.

Namun Hillary dikenang sebagai wira berikutan pendakianberaninya bersama jurupandu dan sahabatnya berbangsa Nepal, SherpaTenzing Norgay yang sama-sama menjejakkan kaki di kemuncak gunungtertinggi dunia setinggi 8,850 meter itu pada 29 Mei, 1953.
        
    Malah, sewaktu menuruni gunung itu, Hillarysempat membuka penutup muka dan mengucapkan kata-kata yang menjadiazimat ramai pendaki Everest "Akhirnya kita sudah berjayamenumpaskannya."

Hillary yang menghabiskan sebahagian besar masanya membanturakyat Nepal, turut dikenali kerana sikap merendah dirinya dan lebihsuka dikenali sebagai Ed.

Namun di sebalik kesederhanaannya yang lebih mahu dikenalisebagai 'manusia biasa dengan kelebihan biasa,' Hillary juga diketahuisakit sejak sekian lama dan mati pada jam 9 pagi semalam waktutempatan, kata kenyataan Lembaga Kesihatan Daerah Auckland - pihakberkuasa perubatan di bandar terbesar New Zealand.
        
                                Jurucakap keluarga, Mark Sainsbury berkata mereka menerima tawarankerajaan yang mahu mengadakan majlis pengebumian rasmi pada tarikh yangakan ditetapkan kelak.

Kematiannya segera disusuli ucapan takziah yang melimpah di atas kehilangannya.

"Beliau menyifatkan pencapaiannya sebagai rakyat berkebolehanbiasa. Tetapi hakikatnya, beliau bukan orang biasa. Beliau adalah wirayang bukan setakat menawan Everest tetapi menjalani kehidupan penuhsemangat, merendah diri dan pemurah," kata Perdana Menteri New Zealand,Helen Clark.


                                Kehidupannyadiwarnai pelbagai pencapaian, pendakian, pengembaraan, penerokaanberani serta keperibadiannya yang sederhana sehinggakan hanya sanggupmembuat pengakuan terbuka sebagai manusia pertama menawan GunungEverest selepas kematian Norgay.

Malah Hillary juga lebih mahu dikenali kerana kerana kempenberdekad lamanya membina sekolah dan klinik kesihatan di Nepal sebagaitanda mengenang kematian sahabatnya itu.

Pada 2003, kerajaan Nepal menghadiahkan Hillary dengan kerakyatan negara kecil itu sebagai mengiktiraf sumbangan  kepada rakyat.

"Kehilangannya sukar diganti. Kami amat sedih dengan kehilanganseorang individu dan sahabat yang memberi banyak sumbangan kepadapembangunan sosiol dan ekonomi Nepal," kata Menteri Pelancongan PrithviSubba Gurung.

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Edmund bids farewell to Hillary

Good memories: Hillary and Edmund Ponniah during a get-together in 1996.

KUALA LUMPUR: Wise and humble. This is how Edmund Hilary Tensing Ponniah will remember of the first man to reach Mount Everest.    Ponniah抯 father named him after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay, who were the first to reach the peak, as he was fascinated by the mountaineer who won worldwide acclaim in 1953.   Ponniah, 54, a lawyer in Seremban, said he met Hillary in 1996 when he visited Malaysia.  揘ever say you have conquered Mount Everest, but say that you have ascended it, because you have to respect it as one of the biggest and greatest creations of nature,

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Tuesday January 22, 2008


New Zealanders bid farewell Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary at state funeral

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealanders mourned Tuesday at a state funeral for Mount Everest conqueror and adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary, hailed as the South Pacific nation's greatest son.

Five hundred New Zealand and international dignitaries and guests joined the Hillary family at the service in St. Mary's Anglican Church in this northern city while thousands gathered at big screen venues in cities nationwide to pay their last respects to the adventurer.

Hillary died of a heart attack on Jan. 11 at age 88.

As the service began, five Sherpas, including one woman, laid traditional Tibetan prayer scarves on the coffin for "burra sahib'' - "the big man'' who had spent more than 40 years working to aid their region's development.

The ice ax used by Hillary on his May 29, 1953, conquest of Mount Everest with Nepal Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay also lay atop the flag-draped coffin.

One of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, Hillary later made the first motorized overland trip to the South Pole, led a jet boat expedition from "sea to sky'' up India's Ganges River, and joined an expedition to the North Pole.

The former beekeeper became a humanitarian, building schools, hospitals, health clinics and other facilities in Nepal to aid the Sherpa people of Nepal's mountain region near Everest.

"In reality he was a colossus, he was our hero, he brought fame to our country ... but above all we loved Sir Ed. for what he represented - a determination to succeed against the odds,'' Prime Minister Helen Clark told mourners.

The "most famous New Zealander of our times,'' Hillary's humility, can-do attitude, and "tremendous sense of service to the community'' were an inspiration to generations of New Zealanders, she said.

His son, mountaineer Peter Hillary, who has twice climbed Everest, said his father "was a real people's hero'' and that helping the Nepali people "really was the great calling of my father's life.''-AP