EDMUND HILLARY: A BIOGRAPHY (PB)

Edmund Hillary was a beekeeper from New Zealand who went on to climb Mount Everest. He’s also the man who, against expedition orders, drove his tractor to the South Pole. He is 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. Writen by Michael Gill, a close friend of Hillary's for nearly 50 years who accompanied him on many expeditions.