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'To you goes half the glory'.

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Ernest Hofstetter, whose team first traced the route used by Sir Edmund Hillary to conquer Mount Everest, died at his French chalet with a view of Mont Blanc on June 1.

He was 95.

Hofstetter was on the Swiss expedition that had to turn back just short of the peak in 1952 but is credited with forging the path that Hillary and Tenzing Norgay used in their successful assault a year later.

Acknowledging the Swiss contribution, Hillary's team sent them a telegram after reaching the peak: "To you goes half the glory."

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