Category: Mountaineering/Climbing

Edmund Hillary Has Ventured On: 1919-2008 »

By David Stilwill on Jan 11, 2008 in Adventure Icons, Featured, Mountaineering/Climbing | 0 Comments

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
Mountaineering legend & humanitarian Edmund Hillary has passed on at the age of 88. Hillary, who alongside sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was first to climb Mount Everest, the world highest mountain [...]

Mystery From The Roof Of The World: Mallory & Irvine On Everest »

By David Stilwill on Dec 12, 2007 in Adventure Icons, Featured, Mountaineering/Climbing, Non-Fiction | 0 Comments

“..Then the whole fascinating vision vanished,
enveloped in cloud once more..”
Noel Odell
Geologist/Oxygen Officer
1924 Everest Expedition
“We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.” Is a quote attributed to George Mallory and a little less cliche than his enduring catch phrase - “Because it is there.” Whether he did ‘stomp to the top‘ [...]