The queen shared top billing, though, with a couple of adventurers, as it was announced that Edmund Hillary ... reached the summit on Friday, May 29, and had planted the British flag.

Fifty years ago, on May 29, 1953, two men stood on the summit of Mount Everest ... as British as the islanders themselves. Edmund Hillary the beekeeper was a big, burly, merry, down-to-earth ...

(CNN)-- Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount ... humility and generosity." Flags throughout New Zealand ...

In 1997, I had the privilege of chaperoning the late Sir Edmund Hillary during his ... curious about who actually reached the summit first. Both Hillary and Tenzing were steadfast in saying ...

Weather records from the 1920s may finally put to rest questions over whether Sir Edmund ... your Ed Hillary got to the summit of Everest, he didn't dance around and plant a flag, the first ...