ALWAYS DIE WAN SG He died of heart failure in NZ on 11 january 2008, at the age of 88 link http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Hillary_dead_at_88 http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/edmund.hillary.ap/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7183037.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary