Edmund Hillary : a biography : the extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest
Gill, Michael, 1937-2019
Books
This is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains. The author, Michael Gill, was a close friend of Hillary's for nearly 50 years, accompanying him on many expeditions and becoming heavily involved in Hillary's aid work building schools and hospitals in the Himalaya. During the writing of this book, Gill was granted access to a large archive of private papers and photos that were deposited in the Auckland museum after Hillary's death in 2008. Building on this unpublished material, as well as his extensive personal experience, Michael Gill profiles a man whose life was shaped by both triumph and tragedy.
Main title:
Author:
Gill, Michael, 1937-, author
Imprint:
Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
544 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781911342960 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
796.522092920 HILLB HIL GIL
Language:
English
BRN:
1167160
More Information: