Edmund Hilary 50th Anniversary
EDM number 548 in 2002-03, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 21/01/2003.
That this House notes the 50th anniversary of Edmund Hilary's successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest, due to be celebrated in May of this year; acknowledges the significance of Edmund Hilary's and Tenzing Norgay's achievement and the encouragement this has given to hundreds of others who have tried, successfully and unsuccessfully, to reach the summit of Mount Everest; and in particular pays tribute to the strength of world mountaineering which has gone from strength to strength following Edmund Hilary's historic achievement.
This motion has been signed by a total of 57 MPs.
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