Waitākere Ranges
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The Waitākere Ranges is a mountain range in New Zealand. Located in West Auckland between metropolitan Auckland and the Tasman Sea, the ranges and its foothills and coasts comprise some 27,720 hectare
View of the Waitākere Ranges from Scenic Drive
Typical forest in the Waitākere Ranges
Kauri logs ready for transport in the upper Nihotupu Stream valley (1895)
The Waitākere Dam
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
Waitākere Ranges
…running roughly south–north from the Arataki Visitor Centre to Muriwai through the Waitākere Ranges, named in honour of the New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary. The Hilary Trail is regarded as one of or maybe the best multi day hike in the north of the country. The statistical areas making up Waitākere Ranges…
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