Tag: #Edmund Hillary

Articles tagged with #Edmund Hillary

Khumjung Secondary School established by Edmund Hillary sees a 100% SEE pass rate

Sir Ed was a towering figure, but Lady June was equally staunch at his side, discrete, always there – his saviour

Born on the trail en route to meet the Queen and Prince Philip, Thukten Phillip Sherpa was named by the Duke, who appointed himself godfather of…

Remembering the last surviving foreign member of the first expedition to climb Mt Everest in 1953

Takashi Miyahara was Nepal’s tourism pioneer who founded Himalayan Kanko Kitatsu and built Hotel Everest View and Syangboche Airfield 50 years…

Mingma Sherpa scholarship students return from New Zealand just before Nepal shuts down to COVID-19

With new roads, Edmund Hillary’s favourite vantage point is more accessible to trekkers

Sir Ed would not have liked the queues on Everest this spring

Courtesy of Auckland War Memorial MuseumHow many of us knew that Edmund Hillary had written a novel called Call Not To the Gods under the nom de…

It is perfect that Everest: Reflections on the Solu Khumbu should come out this year, the centenary of Edmund Hillary’s birth. The book is a…