The top 10 included Marco Polo and astronaut Neil Armstrong as well as mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
Sir Edmund Hillary's ghost would come down and beat you senseless with a crampon, but you could wear it.
Either way, as Sir Edmund Hillary has remarked, they did not get back.
"My thoughts are with Lady Hillary, Sir Edmund's children, wider family, and close friends at this sad time, " Helen Clark said.
His daughter, Sarah spoke of a childhood where Sir Edmund was planning expeditions, and coming home to a family eager to see him again.
The incident drew much soul-searching in the mountaineering world, with Sir Edmund Hillary complaining to New Zealand's Otago Daily Times of the "horrifying" attitudes it revealed.
Since New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepali Tenzing Norgay first summited the roof of the world in 1953, nearly 6, 000 people have attempted the climb to the summit.
Some were brilliant, including his biography of Sir Edmund Backhouse, an unscrupulous British oriental scholar, and his satirical essays on life at Oxford published under the pseudonym Mercurius Oxoniensis.
It wanted photos of famous partners in exploration:the Apollo 11 crew of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, and Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man up Everest, used to say that if you were in real trouble in a difficult place you needed an explorer called Ernest Shackleton, because he understood his people, knew how hard it was to lead well, and was prepared to do the right thing.
They included an 1840 portrait of William Stratton, "head keeper to Sir John Cope of Bramshill Park, Hampshire", by Edmund Havell, and a 1797 Philip Reinagle painting Harrier Killing a Bittern.
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