AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The family of the late Sir Edmund Hillary plans to spend the first anniversary of his death in private remembrance at his favorite New Zealand beach.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A New Zealand pizza chain has apologized and removed an ad that depicted the late Sir Edmund Hillary as a dancing skeleton.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The world's hot dog eating champ picked up a new title by winning the pizza eating competition in New York's Times Square.

NARITA, Japan, June 6 (UPI) -- Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura came home a hero after scaling the summit of Mount Everest for the second time in his 70s.

KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 25 (UPI) -- A 77-year-old man set a record Sunday for being the oldest person to reach the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, officials say.

KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 9 (UPI) -- Nepal reopened Mount Everest to climbing expeditions following China's success Thursday in taking its Olympic flame atop the world's tallest peak.

BEIJING, May 8 (UPI) -- China announced a climbing team, traversing the Tibetan Himalayan route, on Thursday took the Beijing Olympic flame to the summit of Mount Everest.

KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 20 (UPI) -- Nepal security forces have been authorized to open fire on pro-Tibet protesters while the Olympic flame is carried up Mount Everest, an official said.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 15 (UPI) -- Two bodies were recovered Wednesday from a river in New Zealand, bringing the total number of deaths in a school tragedy to seven.

LONDON, April 6 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince Philip was released from a London hospital where he was being treated for a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said Sunday.

LONDON, April 4 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince Philip is hospitalized with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said Friday.

LONDON, March 30 (UPI) -- Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the British explorer who had a heart attack near the summit of Mount Everest in 2005, plans another try at scaling the summit.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- The ashes of Sir Edmund Hillary were scattered at sea in the Hauraki Gulf in Auckland, New Zealand, according to the adventurer's wishes, his family said.

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Lukla, the airstrip near the foot of Mount Everest, is to be named after the first conquerors of the world's tallest peak in Nepal's Himalayan range.