Multiple choice general knowledge history

his New Zealander reached the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953 and the South Pole in 1958.

  1. Robert Peary

  2. Edmund Hillary

  3. Vivian Fuchs

  4. Samuel Hearne
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Explanation

Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand mountaineer, became one of the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, alongside Tenzing Norgay. In 1958, he reached the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, making him the first person to reach both the Everest summit and the South Pole.

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