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001			on1002045587
003			OCoLC
005			20190301143648.0
008			170827s2017 nz acf b 001 0beng d
020			_a9780947503383 (hardback)
020			_a0947503382 (hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1002045587
040			_aNZHPC _beng _erda _cNZHPC
082	0	4	_a796.522092
100			_aGill, Michael _d1937- _eauthor. _932910
245	1	0	_aEdmund Hillary : _ba biography / _cMichael Gill.
260			_aNelson, New Zealand _bPotton & Burton _c2017.
300			_a540 pages : _billustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis new and important biography of Sir Edmund Hillary, a truly great New Zealander, breaks new ground among previous accounts of his life. The author, Michael Gill, was a close friend of Edmund Hillary's for over 50 years, accompanying him on many expeditions, and becoming heavily involved in his Himalayan aid work. He was also granted access by Sir Edmund's children to a large archive of private papers and photos that were deposited in the Auckland Museum after his death. Building on personal experience, and this new unpublished material, Michael Gill has written a wonderfully insightful and illuminating biography. He describes the uncertainties of the first 33 years of Edmund Hillary's life, as well as the always-fascinating stories of the early attempts on Mt Everest, all a prelude to the first ascent which brought him instant world-wide fame. But too, this biography reveals, in part through personal letters, the tender and loving relationship he had with his wife Louise. Her importance to him during their 22 years of marriage only underlines the horror of her death, along with that of their youngest daughter, in a plane crash in 1975. Sir Edmund eventually pulled out of the subsequent depression to continue his life's work building schools and hospitals in the Himalayas. Affectionate, but scrupulously fair, Michael Gill has gone further than anyone before to reveal the humanity of this remarkable man.
600		0	_aHillary, Edmund, _d1919-2008. _917350
600		0	_aHillary, Edmund, _d1919-2008 _xFamily. _932911
650		0	_aMountaineers _zNew Zealand _vBiography. _915344
655		0	_919965 _aBiography. _2lcgft
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