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SIR EDMUND PERCIVAL HILLARY, KG, ONZ, KBE (July 20, 1919 - January 11, 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and a Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. TENZING NORGAY SHERPA (May 1914 – May 9, 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa / Tibetan mountaineer. RONLD AMUNDSEN (July 16, 1872 - c. June 18, 1928) He led the first Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. CAPT. ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, CVO, RN, (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) Antarctic explorer famed for the "Race to the South Pole". SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON, Kt., CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) embarked on four Antarctic expeditions and was knighted for travelling the furthest south. JACQUES-YVES COSTEAU (11 June 1910 - 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. BRIAN JONES27 March 1947) along with Bertrand Piccard, co-piloted the first successful uninterrupted circumnavigation of the world on board Breitling Orbiter 3. BERTRAND PICCARD On March 1, 1999 Piccard and Brian Jones set off from Château d'Oex in Switzerland on the non-stop balloon circumnavigation.