Sir Edmund Hillary at U.N. Headquarters Sir Edmund Hillary, a new Zealander, one of the two "Conquerors of Everest," and three other member of last year Himalayan expedition, today paid a visit to U.N. Headquarters, in New York, and told correspondents how he and Sherpa tribesman Tenzing Norgay planted the United Nations flag on the 29,002-foot summit of the Himalayan peak last May 29. This photograph, taken in front of the U.N. Secretariat building, shows Sir Edmund and Lady Hillary (at left) with Ambassador Leslie Knox Munro (right), New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the United Nation's, and Mrs. Munro. January 28 1954. (Photo by United Nations).