Ngā Taonga sound archives: Ed Hillary and Everest, 1953

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay after summiting Mt Everest, 29 May 1953

Edmund Percival Hillary, 1953 (Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library)

Sir Edmund Hillary and George Lowe with the Governor-General Sir Willoughby Norrie, at Government House, Wellington. August 1953. (Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library)