Sir Edmund Hillary and his wife display a book about his victory over Mt. Everest as they arrive in a train in Val D'Isere, France, January 1954.
Hillary, a mountaineer, explorer, author and lecturer was born in Auckland, New Zealand. As a member of Hunt's Everest expedition he reached, with Tenzing Norgay, the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953, for which he was knighted.