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Biography: Hillary, Edmund Percival

Cho Oyu expedition team, 1952

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Cho Oyu expedition team, 1952

After taking part in a 1951 Everest expedition led by the British, Edmund Hillary, with fellow New Zealanders Earle Riddiford and George Lowe, took part in a reconnoitre of Cho Oyu, an 8,000-metre peak on the Tibetan border. In the front row of this shot of team members are (from left) leader Eric Shipton, Charles Evans and George Lowe.

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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/photograph/28381/cho-oyu-expedition-team-1952 (accessed 12 June 2026).