Sir Edmund Hillary

On May 28, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

With his brother Rex, Hillary became a beekeeper, a summer occupation that allowed him to pursue climbing in the winter. His interest in beekeeping later led Hillary to commission Michael Ayrton to cast a golden sculpture in the shape of honeycomb in imitation of Daedalus's lost-wax process. This was placed in his New Zealand garden, where his bees took it over as a hive and "filled it with honey and their young".