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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
THE CAPTAINS of England and New Zealand posed with the newly minted Edmund Hillary Shield yesterday, an aptly titled trophy given the mountainous size of England's task against the all-conquering All Blacks tomorrow. The only thing in the home side's favour is the barely concealed anger within the camp in the wake of last Saturday's 42-6 defeat by South Africa.
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22dropout.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
It's a trophy that Sir Edmund Hillary would have been proud of with the shield bearing his name being unveiled at Twickenham ahead of the test between England and the All Blacks this weekend.
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Sir Edmund Hillary's widow unveiled the trophy, named in her husband's honour, which will be on the line when England face New Zealand in Saturday's Investec Challenge.
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Pizzas and Other Stuff (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
A New Zealand pizza chain has withdrawn a Halloween promotion that showed skeleton animations of three deceased celebrities dancing on graves. Hell Pizza's advert showed animations of Sir Edmund Hillary, actor Heath Ledger and the Queen Mother dancing to Michael Jackson's song Thriller. The family of Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund, who died in January, said the ad was in "extremely poor
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Getoutdoors.com Outdoor Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
We kind of laughed at this, but we're insensitive bastards. Some pizza franchise in New Zealand ran a Halloween ad featuring Heather Ledger, Sir Edmund Hillary, and the Queen Mum (all dead btw), coming out of their graves and dancing to Michael J's Thriller. He, he. Needless to say, most people found the ad in bad taste and it was "pulled" prematurely. Ahh well, we can only imagine the actual ad with...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A New Zealand pizza chain has apologized and removed an ad that depicted the late Sir Edmund Hillary as a dancing skeleton. Hell Pizza pulled the advertisement from its Web site Monday after family members of the first man to scale Mt. Everest objected to the animated ad's use of Hillary's skeletal likeness dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller alongside actor...
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Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
A pizza company which used an advert featuring the dancing dead bodies of the Queen Mother, actor Heath Ledger and Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary apologised today.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
A controversial pizza chain in New Zealand has had to apologise over a macabre Halloween advertisement which featured skeletal animations of the Queen Mother, Sir Edmund Hillary and Heath Ledger dancing on gravestones.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
A NEW Zealand pizza chain has withdrawn an advertisement showing the corpses of actor Heath Ledger, Britain's Queen Mother and Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary dancing on a grave.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
A pizza chain's macabre advertisement depicting the skeletal remains of Sir Edmund Hillary dancing in a graveyard has outraged the family of the Everest conqueror.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Wellington - A Halloween pizza promotion depicting Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary dancing in a graveyard has upset his family, news reports said Monday. The animated commercial, by the New Zealand company Hell Pizza, shows a skeletal Sir Ed, fl...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
A pizza chain's macabre advertisement depicting the skeletal remains of Sir Edmund Hillary dancing in a graveyard has outraged the family of the Everest conqueror.
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TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Sir Ed pizza ad 'bad taste ' A halloween pizza promotion depicting Sir Edmund Hillary dancing in a graveyard has upset those closest to him just 10 months after his death. The animation, by Hell Pizza, shows a mostly skeletal Sir Ed, flanked by Heath Ledger and the Queen Mother, emerging from graves to dance to Michael Jackson's song Thriller. It was posted on the Internet two days before Halloween...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Wellington - The life of Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest and Antarctic explorer, is to be immortalised in a series of five postage stamps in his homeland New Zealand, it was announced on Thursday. Hillary, who died aged 88 in January, ...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
The life of Sir Edmund Hillary is to be immortalised in a five-stamp series. Each stamp bears an image of major moments throughout Sir Edmund's life accompanied by a fluttering New Zealand flag, including his historic climb of...
