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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…

History & Culture

The Duke of Edinburgh's adventurous spirit lives on

…back. Prince Philip encouraged me to do more such things and I did. I became an adventure filmmaker. Years later I applied for a job with Sir Edmund Hillary, a…

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

Scientists found a stone wedged in a tree. This is what it tells us about the resilience of Aboriginal culture

A RECENT DISCOVERY on Wiradjuri country in New South Wales shows some of these “culturally modified trees” may be much younger than anybody thought. What are culturally modified trees? Aboriginal…

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