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“I was incredibly stubborn. I mean, I believe that my father was frequently in the right, but I would never admit it, and so we did have a few set-tos on various topics; but on the whole as I got older and my father got more mature we got along reasonably well.”

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Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, best known for his ascent of Mount Everest. He was born on July 20, 1919, and passed away on January 11, 2008. more

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