Hillary reached the South Pole in 1958 by tractor as a member of the British Commonwealth Trans-Atlantic Expedition led by Sir Vivian Fuchs. He led the first jet boat expedition along the Ganges River in India in 1977. He was New Zealand High Commissioner to Nepal, India & Bangladesh. He founded the Himalaya Trust in 1960 and built schools, hospitals and airfields. He was made an honourary citizen of Nepal in 2003. He did much more than looking for the Yeti and despite all the honours bestowed upon him, he remained humble. He is a New Zealand hero.
He drove three Massey Ferguson tractors to the South Pole to drop of supplies for the British expedition. He was not supposed to actually reach the pole , just leave supplies along the route , but he decided to go for the pole.
The climbing and study of "Everest" has led to thousands of medical breakthroughs, especially in the effects of altitude and/or low oxygen on the human body.
I remember meeting him at Mt Cook(NZ) when I was 14 in 1984 and he seemed like a giant to me (He was 6'5) I got a signature and a photograph of him dwarfing me
The picture of Hillary with the yeti drawing surfaced on a later episode.. Phill Jupitus- "He`s saying `Now, this is the creature we are seeking`, And all the sherpas say `Oh, you mean Keith...."
I see climbing Everest being a thing you do to test yourself, but the real test is of your judgement. I admire those who turn back down being really close when they realise it would be too dangerous, perhaps thinking "Next time..." One of the things I respect Brian Blessed (you have seen him here) for is when he climbed Everest (and knowing he wouldn't be able to go again because he was getting too old) they all turned around as one person showed signs of swelling of the brain. That guy would have gotten down without them all, but he thought the safest way was everyone going back down. What's climbing a mountain compared to caring for someone else?
There's a housing estate near my old school that was being built in the early '50s, so it includes Tensing Road and Hillary Crescent. The local pub was called _The Everest_ when it opened (and where I drank my first legal pint on my 18th birthday), but it has since been acquired by the Wetherspoons group and renamed _The Frank Hornby_ after another local resident.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 Ha ha, you're not missing a huge amount. I haven't been in one for a while, and can only hope the owner Tim Martin has toned down the political propaganda since he got his way over Brexit.
Sir Ed dedicated his life to bettering the life of the people of Nepal. He built school, hospitals, airfields etc. Sadly his first wife and one daughter died in an air crash in the Himalayas in 1975. He is definitely one of our NZ heroes. I like what he said about climbing Everest..."we knocked the bastard off". By the way, we don't say 'fush and chups' or 'sex' for the number 6. Rob Brydon was doing a not very good Aussie accent. There aren't many people who can imitate our accent, no even Michael McIntyre.
Picked up my 3rd QI book the other day, nice thrift store find! :) Little tid-bits of facts and un-facts 1-handed google searching -> a risky business! Talk about 'six' and all that, pff! ;) A Yeti hunt, I think some rich kids in their gap year still do this don't they! Spending most of the trip in the 'Namche Bazar Solukhumbu' Irish Pub in Nepal (highest bar in the world, don't you know!) of course lol Brilliant as always, thank you guys!
From the 1920s to his death in 1955, Albert Einstein obsessed over discovering a “unified field theory” (to merge the theories of electromagnetism and gravity into one cohesive framework). He was unsuccessful. After her return from her pioneering work as a nurse in Crimea, Florence Nightingale spent the rest of her life (54 years) a hypochondriac, obsessed over her own health. What happens after… sometimes deflating.
Rob Brydon is the presenter on WILTY, with team captains being Lee Mack and David Mitchell. Rob Brydon is the short one with a very long face, who does a good impression of the late Ronnie Corbett, and a reasonable impression of the late Sir Terry Wogan! Corbett and Wogan are both dead now, so are not around to complain when Brydon does his endless impressions of them. 😢
I'm always a little saddened when people say "Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing". His name was Tenzing Norgay. Calling him "Sherpa Tenzing" is like calling Hillary "Mister Ed". (The first horse to climb Everest, probably...)
A very sad fact he lost his wife and youngest daughter in a plane crash in the Himalayas in 1975 while they were travelling to a hospital that Hillary was building!
Technically Hillary wasn't the first to climb up Mnt Everest. He was the first to climb back down. There was someone called Mallory who reached the top but died before making it back down.
Once upon a time gorillas were nothing but a rumour of hairy men living in the deepest rain forests of Africa. The way we know they exist is because someone went looking for them. I think you’re being unfair to him.
we are searching for the yeti! what do you mean, you are FAMOUS for having been everywhre on these mountains, and now you wanna START searching? yes absolutly! ok and you thought to help you with your search what you need is 2 rocket experts? absolutly! ok and you are sure it has nothing todo with the new chinese rocket program in tibet? YETI I SAY!
Hillary reached the South Pole in 1958 by tractor as a member of the British Commonwealth Trans-Atlantic Expedition led by Sir Vivian Fuchs. He led the first jet boat expedition along the Ganges River in India in 1977. He was New Zealand High Commissioner to Nepal, India & Bangladesh. He founded the Himalaya Trust in 1960 and built schools, hospitals and airfields. He was made an honourary citizen of Nepal in 2003. He did much more than looking for the Yeti and despite all the honours bestowed upon him, he remained humble. He is a New Zealand hero.
You should look into the interview of the Actor Brian Blessed, what a life, what a character!
He drove three Massey Ferguson tractors to the South Pole to drop of supplies for the British expedition.
He was not supposed to actually reach the pole , just leave supplies along the route , but he decided to go for the pole.
He was asked by a journalist if he found it and he famously replied: "Not Yeti."
The climbing and study of "Everest" has led to thousands of medical breakthroughs, especially in the effects of altitude and/or low oxygen on the human body.
From one great feat to searching for one big foot isn't such a stretch Nick😂😂😂😂
Oh, it took me way too long to get that one. 🤔😆
when i was a school kid in Melbourne Australia Sir Edmund did a lecture in a near by school it was fascinating
I remember meeting him at Mt Cook(NZ) when I was 14 in 1984 and he seemed like a giant to me (He was 6'5) I got a signature and a photograph of him dwarfing me
The picture of Hillary with the yeti drawing surfaced on a later episode..
Phill Jupitus-
"He`s saying `Now, this is the creature we are seeking`,
And all the sherpas say `Oh, you mean Keith...."
People were so gallant
Everest is buried in St Andrews church here in Hove in Sussex, but down the road from me
Wow! How did they manage that?
They didn't have to search everywhere to find the Yeti just where the Nepalese people claimed they lived.
I see climbing Everest being a thing you do to test yourself, but the real test is of your judgement. I admire those who turn back down being really close when they realise it would be too dangerous, perhaps thinking "Next time..."
One of the things I respect Brian Blessed (you have seen him here) for is when he climbed Everest (and knowing he wouldn't be able to go again because he was getting too old) they all turned around as one person showed signs of swelling of the brain. That guy would have gotten down without them all, but he thought the safest way was everyone going back down. What's climbing a mountain compared to caring for someone else?
As a child I wouldn't go down the Tube because there might be some down there (see old episodes of Doctor Who).
Oo... oo... I know this one!
Did he climb down?
Sadly the Hilary Step, the most difficult part of the ascent from the Nepal side, was badly affected by the Nepal earthquake in 2015.
There's a housing estate near my old school that was being built in the early '50s, so it includes Tensing Road and Hillary Crescent. The local pub was called _The Everest_ when it opened (and where I drank my first legal pint on my 18th birthday), but it has since been acquired by the Wetherspoons group and renamed _The Frank Hornby_ after another local resident.
There's a Hillary Crescent not too far from where I live, too - but not the same one, because we don't have Wetherspoons in New Zealand :)
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 Ha ha, you're not missing a huge amount. I haven't been in one for a while, and can only hope the owner Tim Martin has toned down the political propaganda since he got his way over Brexit.
Sandy ,,, one of our joys here in the U,K…… English impeccable,,,,, she is from COPENHAGEN.
Sir Ed dedicated his life to bettering the life of the people of Nepal. He built school, hospitals, airfields etc. Sadly his first wife and one daughter died in an air crash in the Himalayas in 1975. He is definitely one of our NZ heroes. I like what he said about climbing Everest..."we knocked the bastard off". By the way, we don't say 'fush and chups' or 'sex' for the number 6. Rob Brydon was doing a not very good Aussie accent. There aren't many people who can imitate our accent, no even Michael McIntyre.
Without context you'd still guess it was said by a Kiwi/Aussie 😊
yeah - the "fush'n'chups" thing makes me wince every time (hi from Dunedin!)
Picked up my 3rd QI book the other day, nice thrift store find! :) Little tid-bits of facts and un-facts
1-handed google searching -> a risky business! Talk about 'six' and all that, pff! ;)
A Yeti hunt, I think some rich kids in their gap year still do this don't they! Spending most of the trip in the 'Namche Bazar Solukhumbu' Irish Pub in Nepal (highest bar in the world, don't you know!) of course lol
Brilliant as always, thank you guys!
it's especialyl impressive, given the gear they had in the 50's. Modern climbers would die from heart attack seeing, how they did it.
I bet not one would die. Or even feel ill.
From the 1920s to his death in 1955, Albert Einstein obsessed over discovering a “unified field theory” (to merge the theories of electromagnetism and gravity into one cohesive framework). He was unsuccessful.
After her return from her pioneering work as a nurse in Crimea, Florence Nightingale spent the rest of her life (54 years) a hypochondriac, obsessed over her own health.
What happens after… sometimes deflating.
If you haven't yet, i suggest QI | Who Invented The Telephone?
It is well known that Yetis went extinct, when their food source dried up, after climbing Everest was banned.
The Yeti doesn't exsist??? WHAT????
Fake news. The Yeti is living happily in a valley in South Wales with the Loch Ness Monster, Cousin Bigfoot and an honest politician.
Rob Brydon is the presenter on WILTY, with team captains being Lee Mack and David Mitchell. Rob Brydon is the short one with a very long face, who does a good impression of the late Ronnie Corbett, and a reasonable impression of the late Sir Terry Wogan! Corbett and Wogan are both dead now, so are not around to complain when Brydon does his endless impressions of them. 😢
I'm always a little saddened when people say "Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing". His name was Tenzing Norgay. Calling him "Sherpa Tenzing" is like calling Hillary "Mister Ed". (The first horse to climb Everest, probably...)
I think the search for Bigfoot is more valid than climbing a big mountain
They didn't say it didn't exist they said that they didn't find it.
Its story at best.
A very sad fact he lost his wife and youngest daughter in a plane crash in the Himalayas in 1975 while they were travelling to a hospital that Hillary was building!
Technically Hillary wasn't the first to climb up Mnt Everest. He was the first to climb back down. There was someone called Mallory who reached the top but died before making it back down.
There is no conclusive proof one way or the other whether or not he reached the summit.
Once upon a time gorillas were nothing but a rumour of hairy men living in the deepest rain forests of Africa. The way we know they exist is because someone went looking for them. I think you’re being unfair to him.
Ask a new Zealander to say Deck
we are searching for the yeti! what do you mean, you are FAMOUS for having been everywhre on these mountains, and now you wanna START searching? yes absolutly! ok and you thought to help you with your search what you need is 2 rocket experts? absolutly! ok and you are sure it has nothing todo with the new chinese rocket program in tibet? YETI I SAY!
Err ...ran for President against _Donald Trump_ ...I think.