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Biography: Hillary, Edmund Percival

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Shaun Barnett. 'Hillary, Edmund Percival', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/139441/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).