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Mountain ridge may be named after Everest conqueror
Aug 5, 2010, 3:57 GMT
Wellington - A ridge on New Zealand's highest peak, the 3,754-metre Aoraki/Mount Cook, may be renamed in honour of the country's most famous mountaineer, Sir Edmund Hillary.
The New Zealand Geographic Board announced Wednesday that it had chosen the mountain's South Ridge out of nine suggestions for tributes to Hillary, who with Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to climb Everest in 1953.
The proposal to rename it Hillary Ridge will go out for public consultation before being approved.
Hillary, who died in January 2008 aged 88, was also the first man to climb the South Ridge, a prominent feature of Aoraki/Mount Cook, in February 1948.
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