The first person to climb Mount Everest: New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary. There is a photo that is world-famous for recording the first human ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. In this photo, Nepalese guide Tenzing Norgay stands on the top of the mountain holding a piece of ice with a flag flying in the wind. The person who took this photo of Norgay was Edmund Hillary, the first New Zealand mountaineer in the world to successfully reach the summit. Hillary, who once worked as a beekeeper in her hometown of Auckland, has given thousands of interviews since her summit success. The approachable Hillary never turned away others just because she was making climbing history. Instead, anyone looking through the local Auckland phone book to find Hillary's name would see his residential address deliberately left there. In an interview with an AFP reporter this year, Hillary Clinton modestly said that she was able to write the history of climbing to the summit only by relying on "practical skills and enough ropes." Hillary was born on July 20, 1919. His father was a veteran. During World War II, he joined the Air Force and after the war became obsessed with mountain climbing. Once when he and George Low were climbing the Alps, the idea of ??climbing the Himalayas suddenly occurred to him. His idea was taken seriously by the World Mountaineering Association at that time. In 1953, after Hillary successfully climbed Mount Everest, George Low, who was at the base camp at the time, witnessed with his own eyes the scene when Hillary and her guide Norgay returned to the base camp. He recalled: "Edmund smiled tiredly, then sat down on the ice and said in his usual tone: 'Okay, we have conquered that guy.'" Hillary was later knighted by the Queen. , but he once wrote in the book: "(Being knighted) is a supreme honor for me, but what I did is really not consistent with the title I got. I can't even believe that I have been canonized." ." After Hillary became famous, he established a foundation named after himself. Currently, his foundation has funded the establishment of 27 schools, two hospitals and more than a dozen clinics in Nepal and other places. Hillary's family was also involved in the work of the foundation. In 1975, his wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash while attending foundation activities in Nepal. In 1984, Hillary was appointed as the special envoy to communicate the cultures of New Zealand, Nepal, and India. He later married his work partner Joan, the widow of his good friend and mountaineer Migru. Now 83 years old, Hillary has not climbed mountains for a long time, but he is very willing to help those mountaineering enthusiasts and often takes the trouble to answer their various questions. The easy-going Hillary rarely lost her temper, with the only exception being an incident that occurred in 1999. That year, the body of British mountaineer George Mallory, who disappeared while summiting in 1924, was discovered by an American expedition, which took photos of the body. After learning about it, Hillary became furious in public and believed that the Americans' actions were "disgusting and callous." Hillary said he would be excited if Mallory was recognized as the first person to reach the summit: "I have been recognized as the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest for 45 years, so I don't have anything. Sorry.