Peter Hillary, in celebration of his father's historic first ascent of Mt Everest in 1953, climbed to the summit of the world's highest mountain for his second time on the 25th of May 2002 as part of a National Geographic documentary. When Peter first reached the summit of Mt. Everest in 1990, he and his father, Sir Edmund Hillary, became the first father and son to accomplish this pinnacle of adventuring achievement. In January 1999, 42 years after Sir Edmund's epic Antarctic journey, they did it again; this time becoming the first father and son to have reached the South Pole overland from the coast and both of them establishing new routes to the South Pole. These are but two highlights in what has been a lifetime of high adventure and undertaking colossal and often frightening challenges. Peter Hillary has been on 38 expeditions and alpine seasons, including the Everest West Ridge, Makalu West Pillar, Mt. Vinson, Aconcagua, Lhotse, Amadablam and Carstenz Pyramid. He was the only survivor of a group of eight climbers heading for the summit of K2 in 1995. To the other seven climbers the conditions seemed fine for a summit bid. But not for Peter. His intuition made him question going on. It was a combination of not liking the look of a bank of cloud, and something less tangible; a feeling of unease and disquiet at ascending the final slopes to the summit. He landed a small aircraft at the North Pole with Sir Edmund and astronaut Neil Armstrong and around the world balloon pilot Steve Fossett. He has the first ski descent of Mt Aspiring: the Matterhorn of the Southern Hemisphere. He is the first across the Roof of the World: The first high-altitude traverse of the Himalayan Range, 1981: a 3000 mile/5000 kms route from Mt Kanchenjunga in Sikkim through Nepal and India to K2 in Pakistan. The trio of Graeme Dingle, Chewang Tashi and Peter averaged over 13,000 feet/4000 meters altitude for the 10 months of the expedition. Peter Hillary is the author of five mountaineering books and has worked on many television documentaries including two for National Geographic Television. Peter has worked extensively with television including interviews on Good Morning America, The Late Show with David Letterman, the Charlie Rose Show in New York and A Current Affair with Ray Martin, numerous major radio programmes and print media such as the New York Times, The Times of London and The Sydney Morning Herald. Peter is a member of the Himalayan Trust, an organization founded by his father to assist the local people of the Mount Everest region, where they have built and run 42 schools, hospitals and medical clinics. Since 1992, Peter has taken over 1000 teenagers to assist with construction work on some of the Himalayan community projects. He works with the American Himalayan Foundation in San Francisco, the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation of Canada in Toronto and is a director of the Australian Himalayan Foundation in Sydney. Titles Climb Your Own Everest To the Ends of the Earth K2 Crises: Survive and Thrive Change! Topics Adventure, Risk, Motivation, Goal-setting, Humor Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $15,000 or more Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State Canada/New Zeal Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.