Video: Sir Edmund Hillary Dies at 88

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January 11, 2008— Sir Edmund Hillary died Friday at his home in New Zealand. He and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in May 1953.

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