Peter Hillary

Peter Edmund Hillary is a New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist, He is the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. When Peter Hillary summited Everest in 1990, he and his father were the first father/son duo to achieve the feat. Hillary has achieved two summits of Everest, an 84-day trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, and an expedition guiding astronaut Neil Armstrong to land a small aircraft at the North Pole. He has climbed many of the world's major peaks, and on 19 June 2008, completed the Seven Summits, reaching the top of the highest mountains on all seven continents, when he summited Denali in Alaska.

26 December 1954

Born on the same birth date (26 December 1954): Ozzie Smith

Born on the same birth day (26 December): Andrew Lock • Bill Ayers • Catherine Coulter • Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry • Denis Cheryshev • Elmar Muuk • Jean François de Saint-Lambert • Mario Mendoza • Martin Cooper (inventor) • Percy Hodge • Richard Mayes • Souleymane Coulibaly • Stu Miller • Wang Lijun • William Stephens (American politician) • Yu Takahashi (singer-songwriter)

Born in the same month (December 1954): Annie Lennox • Barry Greenstein • Derick Parry • Frits Pirard • Henk ten Cate • Jermaine Jackson • John Booth (motor racing) • José María Figueres • Judith Hackitt • Price Cobb • Tony Ables • Yves Debay