TCA Honours Everest Colossus

Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died at the age of 88, made it to the summit of Everest in 1953, and became the first man on the planet to reach its highest point. After a gruelling climb up the southern face, battling the effects of high altitude and bad weather, Sir Edmund and Tenzing Norgay managed to reach the peak at 1130 local time on 29 May. He took the famous photo of his Sherpa companion posing with his ice-axe, but refused Tenzing's offer to take one of him, so his ascent went unrecorded. On the Morning of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in May 1953, her subjects were told that Sir Edmund had made it to the summit. The TCA salutes Ed, a truly inspirational New Zealander.