Aoraki / Mount Cook
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Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It is situated in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South
Aoraki / Mount Cook seen from Hooker Valley
Aoraki / Mount Cook from above Franz Joseph Glacier
Aoraki / Mount Cook seen from the south, taken from 4,000 metres (13,123 ft)
Aoraki / Mount Cook as seen from the end of the Hooker Valley Track, with the Hooker Glacier's moraine lake in the foreground.
Edmund Hillary
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, he and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount E
Aoraki / Mount Cook
…Conrad Kain, guiding the 57-year-old Jane Thomson, considered at the time "a marvellous feat unequalled for daring in the annals of the Southern Alps". Sir Edmund Hillary made his first ascent in January 1948. In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge…
Hillary in c. 1953
Hillary's mother Gertrude Clark, 1909
Hillary in Royal New Zealand Air Force uniform at Delta Camp, near Blenheim, New Zealand, during World War II
Portrait of Hillary, Australia, July 1953