"Hillary was a truly remarkable man and Michael Gill has, quite rightly, afforded him the honour of writing his story with respect and with great skill. "
Anyone familiar with Mount Everest – the world’s highest peak – will also know the names Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing. In 1953, these two men were the first to stand atop this mountain. The equipment they used to achieve this remarkable feat making it all the more something of legend.
Even before I first opened Michael Gill’s book, I sensed I was holding something rather special. It did not disappoint. Michael was Hillary’s friend and expedition companion for 50 years. It shows. The detail in this book is incredible and it never ceases to engage the reader. Interspersed with letters, photographs, anecdotes from contributors and the words of Hillary himself, this is a fascinating insight into the life of one of our world’s true heroes.
Hillary was first and foremost a mountaineer. He was also a beekeeper, a diplomat, an author, an explorer and a philanthropist. He suffered tragedy – his wife and 16-year-old child killed on their way to see him – and he overcame depression.
Hillary said to others who wrote accounts of his life ‘I write my own books.’ I suspect he may have made an exception in this case. Hillary was a truly remarkable man and Michael Gill has, quite rightly, afforded him the honour of writing his story with respect and with great skill.
Superb, just superb.
Edmund Hillary - A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains. The author, Michael Gill, was a close friend of Hillary's for nearly 50 years, accompanying him on many expeditions and becoming heavily involved in Hillary's aid work building schools and hospitals in the Himalaya.
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Edmund Hillary - A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains.
Edmund Hillary features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Travel, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure
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Edmund Hillary was written by Michael Gill and published by Vertebrate Publishing
Edmund Hillary has 544 pages
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