1. Conquest of Mount Everest
Edmund Hillary
Conquest of Mount Everest

2. May 29th, 1953
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest

3. Where is Mount Everest?
It is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet
The mountain is part of the Himalaya Range in Asia

6. How high is Mount Everest?
8,848
metres

7. Edmund Hillary He was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 20th
of July 1919, so he was 33 when he climbed Everest.

8. Where is New Zealand?

9. New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean

10. The flag of New Zealand

11. Climbing up the mountain

12. At the top of the world They reached the summit at 11:30 am
Hillary took Tenzing’s photo, but Tenzing didn’t know how to use a camera, so there is no photo of Hillary in the summit

13. What did they do in the summit?
Tenzing left chocolates in the snow as an offering
Hillary left a cross
They spent 15 minutes at the summit

14. After Everest
Hillary also went to the Antarctica (South Pole) in 1958, and later, to the North Pole
He died in 2008, at the age of 88

15. ACTIVITIES Choose the correct option: Where was Hillary born?
a) Australia
b) New Zealand
c) Himalayas

16. ACTIVITIES
2. Which is the flag of New Zealand?

17. ACTIVITIES Answer: 3. In which continent is Mount Everest? a) Europe
b) America
c) Asia

18. ACTIVITIES 4. How high is Mount Everest? a) 8,200 metres
b) 8,585 metres
c) 8,848 metres
5. What did he do in the summit?
a) He left some chocolates
b) He left a cross
c) He left a photograph

19. EXTRA ACTIVITY
Visit this website and put the mountains in order of height: K2
LHOTSE
CHO OYU
KANGCHENJUNGA
MAKALU
EVEREST
DHAULAGIRI