Mount Everest

Sir Edmund Hillary’s Everest rock pendant

Today marks one hundred years ago Sir Edmund Hillary was born. Te Papa recently acquired a pendant featuring a rock Sir Edmund Hillary collected from the first successful summit of Mt Everest / Chomolungma. History curator Stephanie Gibson tells us more.Read more

By: Stephanie Gibson

On: 20 Jul 2019

In: History

Hillary and Norgay reach the summit of Everest: This month last century May 1953

Sixty years ago, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain (29 May 1953) The two men’s mountaineering triumph came just a few days before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned. Their feat boosted the rejoicing that was already takingRead more

By: Kirstie Ross

On: 28 May 2013

In: History, Photography

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