Hillary Chooses Canterbury For First Climb – 1939
Painfully shy, and extremely uncoordinated, it was the love of a great adventure that pushed the 20 year old Edmund Percival Hillary up Canterbury’s Mount Ollivier (pictured in 2014) – in what would become his first major climb. The year was 1939. Born in Auckland on 20th July 1919, it was a school trip to …
