Peter Hillary

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New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist

Peter Hillary is a mountaineer and philanthropist www.peterhillary.com who is the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first person to climb Mt Everest in 1953. Peter has been on over 50 mountaineering expeditions around the world including five on Mt Everest, skiing to the South Pole in Antarctica and accompanying his father and Neil Armstrong on an aviation adventure to the North Pole. 

 

Peter is the chairperson of the Himalayan Trust that provides education, health and environment services for the people in the Himalayas of the Mt Everest region – all programmes are at their request and with their cooperation. www.himalayantrust.org

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Amanda McLaren

McLaren Automotive Ambassador

Amanda is the only child of Bruce McLaren – former F1 race car driver and founder of McLaren racing. She is a Brand Ambassador for McLaren Racing, McLaren Automotive, a Trustee of the Bruce McLaren Trust and Patron of the Women’s Motor Racing Asso...

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Apa Sherpa

Mountaineer

Apa was born with the name Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa in Thame, a village in the Everest region of Nepal. He was renamed “Apa” which means "much loved“ at three months old after surviving an avalanche.

Apa always wanted to be a doctor but a...

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Ash Dykes

Hiker, author and presenter

Ash Dykes is a 3x world first record holder, speaker, author and TV presenter.

He's walked across Mongolia solo & unsupported, has hiked the entire length of Madagascar and became the first person to walk the length of the Yangtze River...

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