Captures of Memories…

This page will have pictures and a little song, from the memories that came from Sir Edmund Hillary…

 

http://Ballad_of_Ed_Hillary.mp3

 

	Ed Hillary kept an apiary Out Papakura way; He hived his bees Beneath the trees And dreamed about the day When he would climb Mt Everest And proudly stand upon it: His neighbours jeered And said they feared A bee was in his bonnet.
When Hillary was a tiny tot He scaled the garden wall; And he would dare The steepest stair As soon as he could crawl; At school he climbed the flagpole high And hung his cap upon it – Not knowing yet That he would get A halo round his bonnet.
	When Hillary grew to man’s estate He still pursued his dream; One summer day He sailed away With a mountaineering team. The world has hailed his conquest bold So I’ll make no comment on it – Except that he Got a KCB And a feather in his bonnet.
Sir Edmund, he got married and Assumed a parent’s role; But he could not rest So went in quest Of adventure to the Pole. With death across Antarctic snows He ran a race and won it, And brought to fame New Zealand’s name In his fur-lined leather bonnet
	Sir Ed so loved the Sherpa folk that for twenty years he toiled To build them schools And hospitals On their steep mountain soil. In every shrine an image hangs With Ed displayed apon it. It’s not thought odd That he’s a god In a flower-draped silken bonnet

 Bibliography: www.folksong.org.nz, 14/08/2011  

I am ever so sorry if the song doesn’t work for you…. But, don’t worry because more is following…

This picture to the left shows Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing on the way up Mount Everest and the picture closest to the left is Sir Edmund Hillary himself  at the very top of Mount Everest. These pictures show just how harsh the conditions were, with snow so cold that it is pretty much just ice, and no oxygen for the breath of one that dare climbs up Mount Everest.

 

To the right is one of the many books that Sir Edmund Hillary published. This one with the title of “I was the first to conquer EVEREST”. This is a bibliography through the life of Sir Edmund Hillary as it says on the side “MY STORY”

 

 

 

 

To the left again, is a well-known photo of Sir Edmund Hillary at the age of 75. He is pulling a cheesy smile to the camera, even though he will probably be thinking back to that first time he conquered Mount Everest.

 

 

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