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Topic: Edmund Hillary

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The almanac

UPI Almanac for Sunday, July 20, 2008.

The almanac

UPI Almanac for Thursday, May 29, 2008.

7 swept away in gorge on school trip

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.

Prince Philip's hospital stay ends

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.

Prince Philip remains in hospital

LONDON, April 5 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince Philip, laid low by a chest infection, remains hospitalized in London as a precautionary measure, royal officials say.

Prince Philip hospitalized

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

Edmund Hillary's cremains scattered at sea

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.

Airport to be named after Everest climbers

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.

Atlantic Eye: Kiwis, cows and kangaroos

LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- New Zealanders are informal, generous and pioneering, a spirit embodied by Edmund Hillary.

Royal family no-shows at Hillary funeral

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- No member of the British royal family plans to attend the state funeral in New Zealand for Sir Edmund Hillary, the first climber to scale Mount Everest.
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