Edmund Hillary - A Biography: The Extraordinary Life of the Beekeeper Who Climbed Everest

by Michael Gill

Book Overview

Edmund Hillary - A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains.

The author, Michael Gill, was a close friend of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839810254
• ISBN13: 9781839810251
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"