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Updated Friday, October 31, 2008 10:19 am TWN, dpa

Everest conqueror Hillary immortalized in stamps

WELLINGTON -- The life of Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest and Antarctic explorer, is to be immortalized in a series of five postage stamps in his homeland New Zealand, it was announced on Thursday. Hillary, who died aged 88 in January, was a national hero and the first living New Zealander to be depicted on a banknote.

The five stamps depict him with a New Zealand flag at various moments of his life, including atop Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, on a tractor on an expedition to the South Pole, with the people of Nepal, where he established schools and hospitals, and with the Order of the Garter awarded by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth when she made him a knight.

The stamps will be released on November 5.

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