if it's Friday then it must be time for the Friday Matinee
our weekly excuse to kick back and while away the idle hours of
Friday afternoon and countdown the time to getting out on the hills
again.
This week's matinee is a bit different though, with Sir Edmund
HIllary dying today at the age of 88, we thought it would be fitting
to find a few clips to pay tribute to a man who not only climbed the
world's highest mountain, but used the high profile that gave him for
the greater good and, in particular, to help the Sherpas living at
the base of Everest.
This is how the BBC reported Hillary's death complete with footage
from the 1953 expedition.
And this, we think is a French version of the expediton film 'the
Conquest of Everest' which followed the successful 1953 team from
Kathmandu to the highest place on earth. See too some amazing
stock
footage from 1953.
Here's the man himself interviewed for the Academcy of
Achievement, even in this short clip there's an essential modesty and
decency that comes across.
And a photographic tribute to HIllary, apparently uploaded by a
Sherpa.
Finally a view from the summit of Everest, something that Tenzing
Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first people ever to see.
There are plenty more tributes to a great man on You Tube, just
search for 'Edmund Hillary'.
Hillary's Ice Axe For Sale Ideal for a mantlepiece near you, the conqueror of Everest's ice axe complete with marks from the first ascent in a glass-fronted rose-wood display cabinet...
Hillary Calls For Everest Park Protection Sir Edmund Hillary has called for the Sagamartha National Park to be placed on the World Heritage endangered list and for measures to be taken to protect the Everest region from climate change.
E For Everest... It's the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest, so here's a guide to what's Everesty out there on the web and beyond, in the real world Enjoy...
Hillary Profiled In Guardian Everest conquerer Sir Edmund Hillary interviewed as the 50th anniversary of the first climb bears down on use like a mountaineering media juggernaut
Hillary And Tenzing To Climb Everest Again Confused? You will be... Somehow the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest seems to have arrived a year early, unless, of course, you're Swiss. Eh?
