George Lowe has died at age 89, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.
Mary Lowe said Thursday her husband died a day earlier at a nursing home in Ripley, central England, after an illness.
Lowe and his friend Edmund Hillary were the only New Zealanders on the 1953 British-led attempt to climb the world's highest peak.
Lowe was part of a small group that established the final camp 1,000 feet (300 meters) below the mountain's summit on May 28, 1953. The next day, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal reached the 29,035 foot (8,850 meter) peak.
Mary Lowe said Thursday her husband died a day earlier at a nursing home in Ripley, central England, after an illness.
Lowe and his friend Edmund Hillary were the only New Zealanders on the 1953 British-led attempt to climb the world's highest peak.
Lowe was part of a small group that established the final camp 1,000 feet (300 meters) below the mountain's summit on May 28, 1953. The next day, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal reached the 29,035 foot (8,850 meter) peak.
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