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The iRows Blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
WHATEVER THEY SAY, IT'S THE MONEY! Friday May 9, 6:20 Prime Minister ET Washington -- When they say, "It's not the money ..." -- it's the money! ADVERTISEMENT After all is said and almost done, the Numbers that are dragging Edmund Hillary Bill Clinton to the end of her political campaign are not depute counts but dollar amounts. She is already more than than $20 million in debt, and her political campaign...
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Medgadget (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
A device which almost helped Tom Bourdillon to reach the peak of the Everest (three days before Sir Edmund Hillary) is being resurrected to help people suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Researchers from University College London's Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine, who rediscovered the functionality of the device, are teaming up with Smiths Medical...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
As intrepid climbers, they were denied their moment of glory when they were forced to turn back just 300ft below the summit of Everest, three days before Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay conquered the mountain. But more than 60 years later Tom Bourdillon, the British rocket scientist who designed the breathing equipment for the historic expedition, and his climbing partner Charles Evans have found...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
As intrepid climbers, they were denied their moment of glory when they were forced to turn back just 300ft below the summit of Everest, three days before Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay conquered the mountain. But more than 60 years later Tom Bourdillon, the British rocket scientist who designed the breathing equipment for the historic expedition, and his climbing partner Charles Evans have found...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
She's been called an 'intellectual lap-dancer', 'the Edmund Hillary of social-climbing' and 'the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus'. Not that Arianna Huffington cares - for when she speaks, the world has learnt to listen. Helena de Bertodano spends a day in the presence of the socialite and political pundit
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Shedworking (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Another option for you shedmug fans, the anti-bug mug from Access Garden Products which promises "to keep the heat in and the bugs out!" designed by Simon Drew. It features Houdini's shed, the Trojan shed, Edmund Hillary's shed, and so on. Spotted by friend of Shedworking and general all round good egg Lila das Gupta
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Purple News Network (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Officials with Democratic presidential campaigner Edmund Hillary Rodham Clinton's political campaign downplayed the importance of the North Carolina primary on Monday, as both she and Barack Obama announced programs to tree stump in the state later this week. Clinton spokesman Leslie Howard Wolfson said the political campaign doesn't see North Carolina a must-win state. He answered a inquiry about...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
The garter banner of Sir Edmund Hillary has been presented to the Auckland church where his state funeral was held. The Hillary family presented the banner to the dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Ross Bay, at a private ceremony...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Sir Edmund Hillary's memory will live on at St Mary's Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland: his banner of the Garter will be hung there. Sir Edmund was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1995. The banner of his...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Aucklanders will get to see the garter banner of Sir Edmund Hillary at an Auckland cathedral today. The banner will be presented to the dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell at a private ceremony in neighbouring St Mary's at...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Sea level be damned. Sometimes a guy needs a little altitude. I'll admit to a certain admiration for mountaineers like the late Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, but as a certifiable couch tuber, I've had it with adventurers hanging off cliffs or losing...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
He stood, literally, on top of the world: Everest. The highest mountain on earth. "Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky," Sir Edmund Hillary wrote of that moment in 1953 when he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first to the...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
He stood, literally, on top of the world: Everest. The highest mountain on earth. "Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky," Sir Edmund Hillary wrote of that moment in 1953 when he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first to the zenith.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
"Well into the last decade of the twentieth century," wrote Richard Preston in "The Wild Trees," "the redwood forest canopy of California was one of the last unseen realms of nature on the planet." But then the Sir Edmund Hillary of the forest, a Humboldt...
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InHistoric (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
While I don't necessarily consider mountain climbing a sport, what Edmund Hillary did on May 29, 1953 is one of the greatest athletic achievements of all time. On this day, he and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay became the first men to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. In 1953, Hillary joined an expedition made up of eight other Brits, a pair of New Zealanders, and...
