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Ross Sea Appeal - Children Meet Hillary
Short Film (Full Length) – 1955
...public interest in Fuchs' project was now growing in New Zealand and I did all I could to encourage it. Schools adopted a husky and individuals could buy 'Share in Adventure' certificates. In the end New Zealanders raised more money per capita for the expedition than the United Kingdom.– Sir Edmund Hillary, in his 1999 book View from the Summit, page 164
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