>There are newspaper cuttings here in Australia of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
>author of Sherlock Holmes, visiting apairies in Queensland.  There it is said
>he kept bees.
>
>I am surprised the New Zealanders have not come forward to claim Sir Edmund
>Hilary as one of their own.  Yes he was the first man to climb Mount Everest
>and again I have seen newspaper cuttings plus articles in our bee magazines on
>a visit by Sir Edmund to Australia and promoting the fact he ate honey and
>kept bees.
>
>Trevor Weatherhead
 
 
Sir Edmund Hilary made his living from bees - as a commercial beekeeper (at
least, before the Everest expedition). Obviously all that lifting and
carrying of stocks and supers was very good training !
 
Steve