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- Title
- Hillary: A View from the Top - The Early Years
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- NZ On Screen
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These excerpts from part one of Tom Scott’s award-winning series on the life of Edmund Hillary look at his early years. Ed reflects on his youth as a gangly Auckland Grammar student, beekeeping, and a school trip to Ruapehu that sparked a “fiery enthusiasm” for alpine adventure. Coupled with a young man’s frustration with his “miserable, uninteresting life”, this passion for the hills soon led to a solo ascent of Mount Tapue-o-Uenuku as an RNZAF cadet — famously climbed on a weekend’s leave f...
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- Video
- Date created
- 1997
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/hillary-early-years-1997
- Related subjects
- hillary / ollivier / auckland grammar / honey / beekeeping / tapi / tapueouenuku / railways / apiarist / hodder / hodder river / shin hut / kaikoura / catalina / flying boat / harry ayres / mount cook / mt cook / mick sullivan / ruth adams / awatere / burns / burnt / woodbourne / rnzaf / ruapehu / south ridge / hermitage / climbing / mountaineering / crocodile / cadet
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