Thu. November 05, 2009
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Radio New Zealand
November 5, 2009
He was a keen climber in his younger days, completing some of the first ascents in the Southern Alps and climbing with Sir Edmund Hillary
National Post
November 5, 2009
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Monroe Evening News
October 31, 2009
2:55 pm: We have to go up a giant ridge that is so steep it requires the guidance of Sir Edmund Hillary
New York Times
October 30, 2009
The expedition found no clear evidence that Mallory had actually reached the top, as Sir Edmund Hillary
Seattle Post Intelligencer
October 29, 2009
Or the four
engineers from the Test Flight group who climbed Mount Rainier in 1953 and, taking a page from Sir
Edmund Hillary
Stuff.co.nz
October 26, 2009
... panelbeaters at the age of 11, and won a primary school speech contest with a speech about Sir Edmund Hillary, who would become a life-long hero. ...
Independent
October 25, 2009
Like Edmund Hillary, I rise to the challenge Because It's There. I Facebook University Challenge contestants to see if they've written anything rude about ...
Stuff.co.nz
October 25, 2009
And there are pupil "inquiries" into Kate Sheppard, Jean Batten and Sir Edmund Hillary displayed at the back. Signs of the school's policy for afternoon ...
guardian.co.uk
October 25, 2009
The event takes place at the Waiohika Estate, Gisborne, 29-31 December; rhythmandvines.co.nz Named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first climber to conquer ...
Auckland stuff.co.nz
October 22, 2009
Dennis Hwang and the
Google doodle team have since celebrated events, anniversaries and holidays worldwide âÂÂ" including Anzac Day and Sir
Edmund Hillary's ...
Australian FourFourTwo
October 22, 2009
Edmund Hillary himself would struggle. Captain Travis was the first to speak up, saying "We need everyone to be leaders on
Saturday night and if I can be ...
Strathmore Standard
October 21, 2009
Oct. 14 Byron Smith, owner of the Ford dealership in Strathmore and the director of the Sir
Edmund Hillary Foundation of
Canada, rappelled down the side of ...
Psychology Today (blog)
October 20, 2009
My one rule is that all contenders must be alive (a recent poll for the greatest living New Zealander elected Edmund Hillary, even though he had been dead ...
La Grande Observer
October 19, 2009
The Observer/CHRIS BAXTER ELGIN - Fifty-seven years have passed since
Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay became the first men to scale Mount Everest. ...
Liverpool Echo
October 16, 2009
New Zealand âÂÂ" home of the Haka, sauvignon blanc, Sir
Edmund Hillary, Peter Jackson, extreme
sports, sheep and birthplace of the Rocky Horror Show. ...
Canoe.ca
October 15, 2009
Whether you've never made it a metre up your gym's climbing wall or you dream of one day summiting Machu Picchu, the big Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation ...
Reuters India
October 12, 2009
Kathmandu (Reuters) -
Nepal has bestowed a rare honour on pioneering climber Sir
Edmund Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest along with
Tenzing Norgay ...
Indopia
October 12, 2009
Nepal have honoured Tenzing Norgey Sherpa and Sir
Edmund Hillary by installing their statues in order to promote tourism in the country. ...
Eastern Panorama
October 9, 2009
Edmund Hillary quotes "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.â The quote is apt for the man who in spite of all odds set out to conquer the ...
New Zealand Herald
October 8, 2009
At a special city council meeting, Mr Graham's name was added to those of Sir Edmund Hillary, the late Sir Hugh Kawharu, Professor Peter Gluckman, ...
NEWS.com.au
October 7, 2009
The Australian Criterion columnist Tim Boreham: "
investors shouldn't clamour for a slice of Myer simply on the
Edmund Hillary 'because it's there' motive. ...
Backpacker Magazine
October 7, 2009
The Cameraman, above left, is supposedly a stitch-for-stitch recreation of a jacket worn by the photographer who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary's successful ...
Express Buzz
October 7, 2009
After
Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay scaled the Everest in 1953, mountaineers have been clambering up and down it ever since. ...
Details
October 6, 2009
The limited-edition Ascent collection, first created in 2003 at the semicentennial of Sir Edmund Hillary's Everest climb, goes for broke on the details: The ...
btob
October 4, 2009
Mayor Bob Harvey says a just announced West Coast trail is the perfect tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary. "It's something I talked to Sir Ed about for 20 years. ...
Boston Globe
October 3, 2009
In 1950, he was with a group that climbed the south face of Everest, blazing the trail used by
Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay to its summit three years ...
NEWS.com.au
October 1, 2009
Of course, more often than not these days the stereotypes are reversed - for every Edmund Hillary climbing Everest there's also a Hillary Edmund. ...
Gaming Supermarket
October 1, 2009
When Mount Everest was first conquered in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa named Norgay Tenzing they only had fifteen minutes to enjoy the view ...
fourcorners.co.nz
September 30, 2009
... including the award-winning àla carte Panorama restaurant, the Alpine restaurant buffet and the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre Café and Bar. ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
September 30, 2009
... the Waitakere Ranges and along Auckland's west coast is being named the 'Hillary Trail' after pre-eminent mountaineer and explorer Sir Edmund Hillary. ...
Radio New Zealand
September 28, 2009
A walking track spanning 100km of Auckland's west coast has been named in honour of Sir Edmund Hillary. The Hillary Trail runs through the Waitakere Ranges, ...
Taranaki Daily News
September 28, 2009
On a trip to
Nepal, Mike Scott finds that Sir
Edmund Hillary's greatest feat was much more useful and lasting than just climbing a mountain. ...
Northwich Guardian
September 28, 2009
The mountaineers were never seen alive again but it has never been known if they reached the summit 30 years before Edmund Hillary. ...
The Age
September 28, 2009
Sydney art dealer Denis Savill compared Mr Goodman's feat to Sir Edmund Hillary's conquest of Mount Everest: ''I liken him to Sir Edmund Hillary ⦠in the ...
TVNZ
September 26, 2009
It has been 18 months since the death of Sir Edmund Hillary who was widely considered the greatest Kiwi for 50 years. So who holds the title of greatest ...
Clovis News Journal
September 26, 2009
... a British mountaineer who died on Mt. Everest in 1924, 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary reached the top, and whose body was found not far from the ...
girlracer
September 26, 2009
... most famous
explorers including Dr David Livingstone, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) and Sir
Edmund Hillary. ...
Sky News
September 25, 2009
To help with our Edmund Hillary-type expedition (well, that's what it feels like to us), we have Sherpa Mingma with us. He is a charming 36-year-old ...
Timaru Herald
September 25, 2009
A lot of New Zealanders particularly those over 40 will feel his loss as keenly as that of Sir Edmund Hillary. Younger New Zealanders may be forgiven for ...
Auckland stuff.co.nz
September 25, 2009
... The Young New Zealanders' Challenge of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award to The Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award, in memory of the late Sir Edmund Hillary.
