Record ID:
35966812 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50035179
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1919
Death:
  • 2008
See also:
Notes:
  • b. 1919
  • His High adventure, 1955
  • NZ files, Jan. 24, 2002 (hdg.: Hillary, Edmund, 1919-; x-ref.: Hillary, Edmund Percival, 1919-)
  • NZ database, Jan. 24, 2002 (usage: Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary)
  • New York times WWW site, Jan. 11, 2008 (Sir Edmund Hillary; b. Edmund Percival Hillary, July 20, 1919, Tuakau, near Auckland, N.Z.; d. Friday [Jan. 11, 2008], Auckland, aged 88; lanky New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, won worldwide acclaim in 1953 by becoming the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak)
  • Information from 678 converted Dec. 16, 2014 (b. 1919; mem. of British Everest Expedition of 1953)
  • Himalayan Trust. Annual review, 2016 title page (Himalayan Trust, founded 1960 by Sir Edmund Hillary)
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1589961
  • (AuCNL)867748
  • 000000972404
  • abv01948760
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC Nz DLC Nz
Authentication code:
  • kin