| A | B |
|---|
| New Zealand | native country of Hillary |
| Mt. Everest | the highest mountain on earth |
| Sherpas | the porters who carried things for him |
| beekeeping | his father's occupation |
| eleven | the age at which Hillary started high school |
| New Zealand air force | Hillary's military service was with them |
| John Hunt | British leader of the 1953 Everest expedition |
| May 29, 1953 | the date they reached the summit of Everest |
| July 20, 1919 | Edmund Hillary's birthday |
| Between Nepal and Tibet | location of Mt. Everest |
| humble | a word describing Edmund Hillary |
| knighthood | honor bestowed by the queen in 1953 |
| Britain's Order of the Garter | honor bestowed on Hillary in 1995 |
| Yeti | another name for the Abominable Snowman |
| Neil Armstrong | astronaut who went to the North Pole with him |
| jet boat | how he traveled up the Ganges River |
| farm tractors | how he traveled in Antarctica |
| burra sahib | means "big man" |
| Louise | Edmund Hillary's first wife |
| monastery | a place where monks live |
