Hillary Peak Hillary Peak Hillary Peak is the name which has been proposed by the Government of Nepal for a peak in the Himalayas in honour of Edmund Hillary, who made the first ascent of Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1953. In September 2013 a government panel recommended that two mountains be renamed Hillary Peak and Tenzing Peak as part of a batch of summits that would be opened to climbers in 2014. The coordinates given by the government indicate that it is one of a clutch of peaks on the Nepal and Tibet border between Cho Oyu and Gyachung Kang, known
Hillary Institute Hillary Institute The Hillary Institute of International Leadership is an international awards-giving institute based in Christchurch, New Zealand, inspired by the life’s work of (the late) Sir Edmund Hillary, the first conqueror (with Tensing Norgay) of Mount Everest in 1953. Founded in 2006, the Institute was launched in 2007 by Sir Edmund Hillary and patron Helen Clark (former NZ Prime Minister - now head of UNDP in New York), from Antarctica on Hillary’s last trip there before his death one year later in January 2008. Choosing its first eight operating years to focus on Leadership on Climate Change, the Institute