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The Adventure World of Sir Edmund Hillary - The Sea Pillars of Great Barrier

The Adventure World of Sir Edmund Hillary - The Sea Pillars of Great Barrier
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The Adventure World of Sir Edmund Hillary - The Sea Pillars of Great Barrier
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The Adventure World TV series saw Sir Ed lead an A-Team of mates on a run of adventures. The concept was dreamt up by Bob Harvey, who enlisted Roger Donaldson to direct The Kaipo Wall and an (unproduced) Everest trip. Sir Ed and his climbing mate Mike Gill then went DIY and made two half hour films. This mission to climb The Needles — a rock stack off Great Barrier Island — was the first. Peter Mulgrew sails them over, Murray Jones goes parkour on the rocks and scales a kauri, Graeme Dingle s...

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1977
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jim wilson / murray jones / graeme dingle / mike gill / michael gill / needles / great barrier / hauraki gulf / climbing / 70s / seventies / tern / black-fronted tern / ploughboy / white-fronted tern / peter mulgrew / forestry hut / kauri / kauri gum / kauri scaling / kauri dam / copper mine / mining / morepork / ruru / mountaineering / sailing / yacht

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