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- Title
- The Adventure World of Sir Edmund Hillary - The Kaipo Wall
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
Aotearoa New Zealand's place as an adventure sport mecca is vividly captured in this 70s documentary, directed by Roger Donaldson (Smash Palace). Sir Edmund Hillary leads a team to tackle Fiordland's unclimbed Kaipo Wall. In part one, they kayak and raft down the Hollyford River's testing rapids. At Lake McKerrow they build a DIY sailboat with a tent fly and branches, then tramp through windswept sands and thick bush. In part two the team splits up to conquer the imposing wall, meeting friend...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1974
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/adventure-world-of-edmund-hillary-kaipo-wall-1974
- Related subjects
- hollyford / peter hillary / jim wilson / michael gill / murray jones / graeme dingle / kayaking / canoeing / rafting / blizzard / storm / ice / snow / kea / bush / technical / mountaineering / climbing / kaipo wall / troglodyte peak / hollyford river / darran ranges / kayak / darran mountains / lake mckerrow / expedition / bad weather / raft / white water / camping / tramping / fiordland national park / fiordland / campfire / forest / packing / mountain climbing / glacier / crevass / white out / danger / whakatipu kā tuka / snow cave / 1970s / seventies / 1974
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