Hillary’s dream was to be the first to climb Mount Everest. Mount Everest is in Asia in the country of Nepal. Whatever oxygen is on the ground there is a third of it on Mount Everest. It is 29,028 feet. It is 40 degrees below zero in the summer. There are avalanches where pieces of snow rock or ice slide fast and kill people when they don’t expect it. Recently, an avalanche killed 13 people.
Hillary was originally a beekeeper and his hobby was climbing. Hillary practiced climbing Mount Ruapehu and the Himalayas. The first time he tried to climb Mount Everest he got 19,000 feet. In 1953 he reached the top of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay. Norgay was a Sherpa, which means he knows the mountains really well. Due to this success, Hillary was declared night by the queen of England.