Photo: Sir Edmund Hillary's Ashes Cast Into Sea

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February 29, 2008—The ashes of Sir Edmund Hillary—pictured here in the Nepalese Himalaya at a 1983 ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of his first Everest climb—were scattered in the sea off New Zealand.

Hillary died last month at the age of 88.

Photograph by Anne Keiser/National Geographic

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