A statue of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, in front of the Hermitage Hotel and Aoraki (Mount Cook), 3755m, the highest peak in New Zealand, Te Wahipounamu UNESCO World Heritage Site, Aoraki (Mount Cook) National Park, Southern Alps, Mackenzie Country, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Monument for Sir Edmund Hillary, Khumjung, Sagarmatha National Park, Mount Everest region, Solukhumbu, Khumbu, Nepal

The Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre and The Hermitage Hotel, Aoraki (Mount Cook) National Park, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Mountaineers navigating through the Hillary Step on Mount Everest. The Hillary Step is a nearly vertical part (height around 40 ft) of upper Mount Everest. It lies almost at the top of the mountain, halfway from the "south summit" to the summit top, and is the last real challenge before the summit. It is reached by climbing the South East route. It was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first person, along with Tenzing Norgay, who passed it to reach the summit, Nepal