SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition

SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition

SIGNED EDMUND HILLARY, Conquest of Everest, 1954, First Edition
Sir John Hunt, The Conquest of Everest, With a Chapter on the Final Assault by Sir Edmund Hillary , 1954, Dutton, New York, hardcover, first American edition, first edition stated, first printing, in unclipped dust jacket, signed by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1954. An early signature, near the beginning of Hillary's many acomplishments. In 1954, Hillary toured the USA to speak of the climb, present a slide show, and promote the book. My father-in-law bought this book, spoke with Hillary and had him sign it, on March 4, 1954, at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium (letter to that effect laid in). On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. TIME magazine named Hillary one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century....

Following his ascent of Everest, Hillary devoted most of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan Trust, which he founded. Hillary climbed ten other peaks in the Himalayas on further visits in 1956, 19601961, and 19631965.

He also reached the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, for which he led the New Zealand section, on 4 January 1958. His party was the first to reach the Pole overland since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912, and the first ever to do so using motor vehicles.

Hillary narrowly missed becoming a victim in TWA Flight 266 from the American midwest in the 1960 New York air disaster, having been late for his flight. In the summer of 1962, he was a guest on the television show What's My Line? The panellists were blindfolded for his appearance. He stumped the panel, comprising Dorothy Kilgallen, guest panelist Merv Griffin, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf. In 1977, he led a jetboat expedition, titled "Ocean to Sky", from the mouth of the Ganges River to its source.

Between 1977 and 1979, Hillary commentated aboard several Antarctic sightseeing flights operated by Air New Zealand. [35] He was scheduled to commentate on 28 November 1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901, but had to pull out due to work commitments in the United States and was replaced by his close friend Peter Mulgrew. The aircraft crashed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 on board. Hillary later married Mulgrew's widow...

In 1985, he accompanied Neil Armstrong in a small twin-engined ski plane over the Arctic Ocean and landed at the North Pole. Hillary thus became the first man to stand at both poles and on the summit of Everest.

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