Destinations Everest: A timeline …Mortimer and Tim Macartney-Snape are the first Australians to summit. Greg is currently a trustee of the AG Society. 1990: Peter Hillary, Sir Edmund’s son, summits Everest. The Hillarys are…
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…
Destinations So you want to climb Mt Cook/Aoraki …itself – that can be climbed via hundreds of routes.” It is this concentration of climbing targets that drew the world’s most famous mountaineer, Sir Edmund Hillary. “Mueller Hut is…
History & Culture The third man factor: a saviour within? …than 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…
News Why we shorten barbie, footy and arvo …and oldies more often than younger people. Younger people were more likely to come up with technology-related words, like lappy (laptop), webby (webcam), remi (remote control) and mobes (mobile phone)….
Science & Environment Australia's volcanic history is a lot more recent than you think …Otterloo) Many of the younger volcanoes in Victoria and South Australia are maar volcanoes. Maar volcanoes are craters with low rims around them and are formed by intensely explosive interaction…
History & Culture How colourisation of historical images are changing our national identity …interested in adding colour. “Their audiences were getting much older and they wanted a way to make their programs more accessible and enjoyable for a wider, potentially younger audience,” he…
News Honesty is the only policy for seniors …their younger counterparts. “We know that our working memory gets worse with age,” says Associate Professor Ted Ruffman. “Our ability to spot a lie, and to lie, seems to be…
Adventure An adventurer's guardian angel: the third man …language”. 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 journey from Ross…
Adventure Your guide to the best adventure documentaries: Part 3 …to take your eyes off the screen. Film: https://vimeo.com/benpagefilms/thefrozenroad Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary near the top of the world on that very famous climb. Beyond the Edge Still probably the…