A Calgary mountain climber who reached the peak of Mount Everest last week started his journey home from Nepal on Friday.
Andrew Brash, a high school teacher, successfully summited on May 23 in his second attempt to reach the top of the world’s highest mountain.
In 2006, he was 200 metres from the peak when he cut [...]
Wife Louise and their 16-year-old daughter Belinda, willing participants in Sir Eds dream, died in 1975.
Friend Peter Mulgrew, whose widow June became Sir Eds wife, was nearly killed in Nepal and then there is the sad story of Hillary and his son Peter.
In a country as small as New Zealand, being the child of someone [...]
The tall, gangly beekeeper seized world headlines when he and Tenzing Norgay, on May 29, 1953, became the first to scale the summit of Mount Everest.
He was 88 when he died.
Sir Ed as all New Zealanders knew him - never forgot that he reached the summit with Tenzing and he devoted the rest of [...]
Wife Louise and their 16-year-old daughter Belinda, willing participants in Sir Eds dream, died in 1975.
Friend Peter Mulgrew, whose widow June became Sir Eds wife, was nearly killed in Nepal and then there is thetroubled relationship betweenHillary and his son Peter.
In a country as small as New Zealand, being the child of someone famous has [...]
Wife Louise and their 16-year-old daughter Belinda, willing participants in Sir Eds dream, died in 1975.
Friend Peter Mulgrew, whose widow June became Sir Eds wife, was nearly killed in Nepal and then there is the sad story of Hillary and his son Peter.
In a country as small as New Zealand, being the child of someone [...]
