Sir Edmund Hillary - the first person ever to scale Mount Everest summit - has been called one of "those great Britons" by a conservative British newspaper.
Britian's Daily Telegraph bestowed the dubious title upon Auckland-born Hillary, who conquered Mt Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay about 60 years ago, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The new nationality was given to Hillary in a small editorial on the first Briton, European Space Agency astronaut, Tim Peake, joining the International Space Station (ISS) crew, saying that he was following in the tradition of Francis Drake and Edmund Hillary.