SIR EDMUND P. HILLARY - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 266545
Sale Price $225.00
Reg. $275.00
SIR EDMUND HILLARY
Small black and white publicity photograph of Sir Edmund Hillary
wearing a suit and tie.
Photograph signed: "Best Wishes/E.P. Hillary". B/w, 3¾x4¾.
On May 29th, 1953, Edmund P. Hillary (1919-2008) stood poised atop the
highest mountain peak on earth (29,028 feet). Together, Hillary and the Sherpa
mountaineer, Tenzing Norgay, as members of a British expedition, were the first
men ever to surmount the forbidding Mount Everest of the Himalayas. As a
result of his achievement, Hillary, the beekeeper from Auckland, New Zealand,
was knighted Sir Edmund. In 1955, he published High Adventure which
detailed his climb. Hillary then guided a New Zealand group, in support of
the British Commonwealth Trans-Arctic Expedition, to establish a base and lay
out depots towards the South Pole, a grueling three-year ordeal ending
successfully in March of 1958. In 1977, he led the first jet-boat expedition up
the Ganges, eventually climbing to its source in the Himalayas. Hillary,
since his Everest climb, has built hospitals, schools and raised funds for the
Sherpa people. He was President of the Volunteer Service Abroad, a patron of the
Race Relations Council, and was active in conservation campaigns. His
autobiography, Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, was published in 1975.
Mounting paper remnant on verso (no show through). Fine
condition.
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