climb the ridge in 1948. In September 2013 the Government of Nepal proposed naming a mountain in Nepal Hillary Peak in his honour. After the New Horizons mission discovered a mountain range on Pluto on 14 July 2015, it was informally named Hillary Montes (Hillary Mountains) by NASA. The Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal, awarded by the Nepalese NGO Mountain Legacy "for remarkable service in the conservation of culture and nature in mountainous regions" was inaugurated in 2003, with the approval of Sir Edmund Hillary. A bronze bust of Hillary (circa 1953) by Ophelia Gordon Bell is in the Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand. The Sir Edmund Hillary Archive was added to the UNESCO Memory of the world archive in 2013, it is currently held by Auckland War Memorial Museum. From 2016 to 2020, a pilot immigration programme to New Zealand awarded Edmund Hillary Fellowships, the benefits of which included a 3-year Global Impact Visa to create, support, and incubate ventures and models that result in positive global impact, from New Zealand. After 3 years, migrants could qualify for permanent residency. The Edmund Hillary Foundation, which operated the pilot, claims that more than 250 of the allocated 400 visas were awarded before the pilot closed. Arms Publications Notes References Citations See Also 1975 Royal Nepal Airlines Pilatus PC-6 Porter crash Sources (The Summit (Chapter 16, pp 197–209) is by Hillary) External links from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography On top of the world: Ed Hillary at nzhistory.net.nz Videos (10) at the New Zealand National Film Unit Obituary of Edmund Hillary at tributes.com "Interview with Sir Edmund Hillary: Mountain Climbing" at Smithsonian Folkways Edmund Hillary on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, 17 April 1979 Edmund Hillary's collection at Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira Edmund Hillary addressing The New York Herald Tribune Book and Author Luncheon, February 10, 1954 broadcast by WNYC 1919 births 2008 deaths Ambassadors of New Zealand to Nepal New Zealand autobiographers Explorers of Antarctica High Commissioners of New Zealand to Bangladesh High Commissioners of New Zealand to India People in sports awarded knighthoods Members of the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu, First Class New Zealand and the Antarctic New Zealand explorers New Zealand humanitarians New Zealand military personnel of World War II New Zealand mountain climbers New Zealand memoirists New Zealand male writers New Zealand people of English descent Non-fiction outdoors