Mount Ollivier is a 1933 m (6,341.9 ft) mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand

New Zealand

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. It is a peak in the Sealy Range, about 2.5 km (1.6 mi) west of Mount Cook Village

Mount Cook Village

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. The peak is named after mountaineer Arthur Ollivier, who died in 1897.

Mount Ollivier was Sir Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE , was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest – see Timeline of climbing Mount Everest...

's first major climb, in 1939. After his death in 2008, there was a proposal to rename the peak Mount Hillary as a memorial, a suggestion opposed by Arthur Ollivier's family.