My late mother had kept a magazine featuring Edmund Hillary's climb to the top of Mt Everest because it was a feat that no-one had ever managed before, and it was achieved by a 'mere colonial' – a New ...

Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the ...

Edmund Hillary was chosen by destiny to be the allegorical champion ... by devoting much of his time to the welfare and happiness of the Sherpa people who did so much to help him up there – a most ...