It’s 2 June 1953. ____ have gathered in London for the coronation of Queen ____. News reaches London that a British expedition has just ____ the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, ____ which has never been achieved before. But the two men who have ____ the mountain are not British; Tenzing Norgay is ____ and Edmund Hillary is from New Zealand. Born in Auckland in 1919, Hillary ____ climbing at university. He was strong and had a lot of ____, so he could climb better and for ____ than others It’s 28 May 1953. ____ hasn’t been conquered yet, but Hillary and ____ are very close. They have just reached 8,500 metres high on the ____ and they’re closer to the summit than ____ has ever been before. It’s the next morning, and Hillary’s ____ have frozen. They’ve already ____ for two hours, but they have to leave if they are to reach the ____ and get down before night falls. So, at 6.30 in the ____, with each man carrying a 14-kilogram pack, ____ set off for the summit. They climb slowly, but by 11.30 that morning they ____ reached the summit. Edmund Hillary has ____ of conquering Everest since he started ____, and now he has finally done it They spend just ____ minutes at the summit and then ____ back down the mountain. When Hillary returned to New ____, he was a national hero. He was ____ by the Queen and became Sir Edmund Hillary. He joined other ____ to the North and South Pole. But for the rest of his life he ____ to the Himalayas every year to build ____ and schools for the Nepalese people Despite all these ____, he remained ____. It’s 11 January 2008 and Edmund ____ has just died. People from all ____ the world have ____ spoken about how much they ____ him. But it is in New Zealand that he is ____ the most. For almost sixty years he has ____ everything people admire and he continues to inspire new ____ of New Zealanders to ____ their dreams.

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