An excerpt from this television programme.
An excerpt from this television programme.
An excerpt from this television programme.
The credits from this television programme.
These excerpts from part one of Tom Scott’s award-winning series on the life of Edmund Hillary look at his early years. Ed reflects on his youth as a gangly Auckland Grammar student, beekeeping, and a school trip to Ruapehu that sparked a “fiery enthusiasm” for alpine adventure. Coupled with a young man’s frustration with his “miserable, uninteresting life”, this passion for the hills soon led to a solo ascent of Mount Tapue-o-Uenuku as an RNZAF cadet — famously climbed on a weekend’s leave from Woodbourne base— and a 1947 ascent of Mount Cook, with his mentor Harry Ayres.
I plunged on through the cloud until I could plunge on no further and I realised that I’d reached the summit of the mountain.– Ed Hillary, on climbing Tapue-o-Uenuku
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