Who was the first person to get to the top of Everest?
Edmund Hillary
On 6 June 1953 Hillary was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal the same year.[66] On 6 February 1987, he was the fourth appointee to the Order of New Zealand.[67] He was also awarded the Polar Medal in 1958 for his part in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition,[68][69] the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu, 1st Class of the Kingdom of Nepal in 1953, and the Coronation Medal in 1975.[70] On 22 April 1995 Hillary was appointed Knight Companion of The Most Noble Order of the Garter.[71][72] On 17 June 2004 Hillary was awarded Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.[73] The Government of India conferred on him its second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, posthumously, in 2008.[74]