SIR EDMUND P. HILLARY - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/26/1971 - HFSID 270014
Price: $750.00
THE CONQUEROR OF EVEREST IS MAKING PLANS TO RETURN TO NEPAL TO AID
THE SHERPAS
SIR EDMUND HILLARY. Typed Letter Signed: "E.P.
Hillary", 1p, 8x10¼. Auckland, New Zealand, 1971 July 26. On
imprinted letterhead to Mr. Barry Solomon, Yonkers, New York. In full:
"Thank you for your letter and I am pleased to hear of your interest in
mountain climbing. I am leaving for Nepal again very shortly to continue our
aid work for the Sherpas. We have built schools, bridges and a hospital and are
endeavoring to help the Sherpas educate themselves. They are a fine people and
have always been a great help to mountaineers in their area so now we are trying
to do something for the people who have done so much for us. Wishing you all
the best for your climbing activities." Hillary, as mentioned in this
letter, has built hospitals and schools and raised funds for the Sherpa people.
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.
Lightly creased with folds, vertical fold at the "H" of Hillary, horizontal fold
at the upper loops of the "E", "P", "H" and "ll". Fine
condition.
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