In message <[log in to unmask]>, Trevor
Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]> writes
>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.
I think we really ought to remember that Hilary was ONE of the first to
climb Everest - together with his Sherpa companion Tensing Norkhay.
--
Alyn W. Ashworth
Lancashire & North-West Bee-Keepers' Association. UK.
(but I don't speak on their bee-half)
http://www.demon.co.uk/emphasys