Sir Edmund Percival, Auckland 20.7.1919, neuseeländ. Bergsteiger; zus. mit dem Serpa Tensing Norgay Erstbesteiger des Mount Everest (20.5.1953); außerdem weitere Forschungsreisen im Himalaja, in die Antarktis (1957/1958) und auf dem Ganges (1977).
(1919-) New Zealand mountaineer. In 1953, with Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, he reached the summit of Mount Everest, the first to climb the world's highest peak. As a member of the Commonwealth Transantarctic Expedition 1957–58, he was the first person since Scott to reach the South Pole overland, on 3 Jan 1958.