Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand mountaineer who was the first to summit Mount Everest in 1953, died of a heart attack in 2008 at the age of 88.
Hillary fell on April 22, 2007, while on a vacation to Kathmandu, and was hospitalised after returning to New Zealand. He died of heart failure on January 11, 2008, at Auckland City Hospital. Flags were flown at half-mast on New Zealand public buildings and at Scott Base in Antarctica, and Prime Minister Helen Clark described Hillary's death as a "heartbreaking loss to New Zealand." Sir Edmund Hillary, the mountain-climbing New Zealand beekeeper who became a mid-century hero as the first person to reach Mt. Everest's peak, died at the age of 88.
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