Destinations Top Tassie wilderness photographers on Instagram …natural and wild world was common for me, and always a source of joy.” Hillary at South Cape Bay, Tasmania. (Image courtesy Hillary Younger) Going through a particularly tough time…
History & Culture First to the Everest summit: 60 years on …survival at that altitude was possible. It wasn’t until Hillary wriggled and jammed his way up what we now call the Hillary Step – a 12m wall of rock and…
On This Day On this day: A Kiwi claims Everest There were cheers from the Southern Hemisphere when Kiwi Ed Hillary summited Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. ON 29 MAY, 1953, New Zealand-born Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became…
News Edmund Hillary's watch up for auction A ROLEX WATCH GIVEN to Sir Edmund Hillary after his descent from Mt Everest in 1953 is going up for auction. The Oyster Perpetual watch was presented to the explorer…
Adventure Profile: Mark Moorhead …highest peak. It is a beautiful post-monsoon day. Afternoon cloud builds on the horizon. At base camp, Peter Hillary, son of Sir Edmund of Everest repute, waits for his Australian…
Destinations Tasmania's veiled beauty …sets up his beautifully crafted, large-format camera in a dense stand of myrtle-beech and sassafras where he’ll wait patiently for perfect conditions before depressing the shutter. Hillary Younger prefers to…
History & Culture A photographer's dream: First Everest climb …Everest’s summit with their second assault team: craggy New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. A support group climbed ahead of them, including Alfred, known as ‘Greg’, George…
AG Blog Mt Everest Trek: Day thirteen …to the memory of Sir Edmund Hillary, “Forever a friend of and an inspiration to the Sherpa people of Khumbu”. The other two are memorials to Ed Hillary’s wife Louise…
History & Culture The third man factor: a saviour within? …language”. “Monochrome of misery” In 1998 New Zealand mountaineer and adventurer Peter Hillary and Australians Jon Muir and Eric Philips made an attempt at completing Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic 1911-12…
AG Blog Mt Everest Trek: Day twelve …the Khumbu. We stop at the Khumjung High School, which Sir Edmund Hillary helped establish in 1961. There’s a statue of Hillary in the middle of the school; apparently the…
