News Young couple complete outback adventure with child in tow …Pole and back on foot. It was a trek that had been attempted and abandoned by famed adventurers Jon Muir, Peter Hillary and Eric Phillips in 1998. Pulling loads that…
Destinations Mt Cook and New Zealand’s Mackenzie region …situated within Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park: a 70,700ha protected alpine region. The area offers challenging climbing – Sir Edmund Hillary honed his skills here before making the first summit of…
News Everest avalanche captured on video …in Everest history. Queenslander Alyssa Azar, 18, attempting to become the youngest Australian to climb Everest, is reportedly safe. Sir Edmund Hillary’s son Peter was trekking on Mt Everest with…
Adventure Off the edge: A ski descent of Tassie’s Federation Peak …using primitive alpine gear. Since then only reattempted a handful of times, stories of fingers and toes lost to frostbite only add to the legend. Sir Edmund Hillary famously labelled…
Adventure Profile: Greg Mortimer More than 60 years after the first ascent of Mt Everest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, we talk to mountaineer Greg Mortimer about the first Australian ascent of the…
Adventure Do it like a girl: The story of Dot Butler …young visitor who provoked the condemnation of the head guide by climbing in his sandshoes. “He’ll come to no good,” the guide predicted of the young Edmund Hillary!) “There was…
Adventure Choose Pete's gruelling adventure …and the highest point is Hope Pass at 12600 ft… it’s tiring just thinking about it. Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon The Everest region is the home of adventure and as…
Russell Brice …Hillary build the Phaphlu Hospital. He was leader of the first ascent of the North Ridge of Ama Dablam and West Ridge of Himala Chuli. He has been to the…
AG Blog Mt Everest Trek: Day fourteen …placed seventh in the Hillary-Tenzing Marathon, the world’s highest marathon, which runs from Everest Base Camp to Namche Bazaar. It’s an easy walk along the valley to our last night’s…
News Our pick of events this National Science Week …AQWA–SEAcret Agent June 27 – December 9 The Aquarium of WA, Hillarys, WA Space for Girl Guides and Scouts From June 10 Briars Astronomy Centre and Mount Martha Observatory, Mount…