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