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Edmund Hillary Is Dead

By Nick Denton, 7:37 PM on Thu Jan 10 2008, 1,169 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Hillary, the first man to scale Mount Everest along with a sherpa guide whose name people forget, was 88. [Reuters]

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