New Zealand names mountain after Everest conqueror Hillary

August 13, 2011 by  

A guard adjusts a scarf on a statue of late Sir Edmund Hillary in Kathmandu October 12, 2009. REUTERS/Deepa ShresthaReuters – New Zealand will name a part of its highest mountain after one of its most famous citizens, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mount Everest, the government said Wednesday.


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