Monday 9 May 2016

hillman: Word of the day for May 9, 2016

hillman , n :
A native or inhabitant of hilly or mountainous country; a tribesman who lives in the mountains. Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953, died on this day in 1986.

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