Mount Everest

Date: 1993

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- :The Evening Post; Cartoons 3 - 31 May 1993

Reference: H-046-016

Description: Shows a man holding a "Go" sign, allowing climbers to ascend Mt Everest. Refers to the increasing numbers of people climbing Everest and to the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent, which took place on 24 May 1953 Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1953-1985

From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers

Reference: 2010-184-08

Description: Box contains seven folders of research and subject files. Includes material relating to archival repositories, Alexander Turnbull Library and Victoria University of Wellington; Dictionary of New Zealand Biography; Eastbourne; British Everest Expedition (1953-1955). Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed material

Date: 1971

By: Auckland Lions Club; Pelorus Press

Reference: Eph-A-MOUNTAINEERING-1971-01

Description: Booklet containing a brief account of the conquest of Everest by Hillary and Tensing. Also contains a programme of the celebratory occasion in 1971, and brief biographical notes and photographs of Hillary and Tensing. The front cover shows a photograph of the mountain and has been autographed by both Tensing and Hillary. Both copies are autographed on the front cover. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 245 x 178 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Ken Davies, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: 1951-1971

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: 75-241-035

Description: Includes hand-drawn map of the Mueller Pass area; historical notes from `New Zealand alpine journal' on the Godley-Rangitata; a copy of a letter from N Odell which Pascoe considers `interesting from the point of view of N Z recces (reconnaissance trips) leading up to Everest climb' and `Mrs Gale's account of ascent of Mt Tapuaenuku 1890' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photos of Mt Everest and Makalu and letter from N Odell about NZ reconnaissance trips on Everest before Hillary's ascent.

Date: 1953

By: Times (London, England)

Reference: Eph-D-MOUNTAINEERING-1953-01

Description: Complete copy of page 6 of the London Times, with the article about the conquest of Everest in just over two columns on the right. There are portrait photographs of Edmund Hillary and Tensing. The left side of the page is devoted to preparations for the Queen's coronation. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 600 x 450 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Meridian Rare Books, London, Occasional list no. 3, December 2010, lot 127.

Date: 1954

From: [Ephemera relating to mountaineering and mountain climbing in New Zealand or by New Zealanders. 1900-1959]

By: Geographical Society of Philadelphia

Reference: Eph-A-MOUNTAINEERING-1954-01

Description: Programme for an event in Philadelphia, sponsored by the Joint Himalayan Committee of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club of Great Britain, lists the guests of honour (includes Hon L K Munro, NZ Ambassador to the United States) notes on Hillary, Lowe and Evans, and an illustration and notes about the Hillary Medal designed "to commemorate the greatest achievement of our time" by Edward Warwick, George Borst and Julius Windner, and executed by Helen Stevenson West. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 218 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased at New Zealand Book Auctions, in 2008.

Date: 1953

Reference: MSY-5508

Description: Scrapbook of clippings and articles on the climbing of Mt Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay in 1953 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1953 - 1999

By: Webb, Murray, 1947-

Reference: A-307-068

Description: Shows a smiling 80-year-old Sir Edmund Hillary in climbing boots and his well-known striped sunhat, seated on the side of a Mt Everest birthday cake, holding a wedge of cake and a mug of tea. The word congratulations shows on the cake frill at the bottom. Other Titles - 80 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (computer-generated print). Physical Description: Computer-generated cartoon, on paper 296 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by the cartoonist on 20 July 1999.

Date: 1953

From: [Ephemera relating to mountaineering and mountain climbing in New Zealand or by New Zealanders. 1900-1959]

Reference: Eph-A-MOUNTAINEERING-1953-01

Description: An arrangement of text on card with deckle edges. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on card, 95 x 140 mm. Transfers: From the papers of Mary Blair, MS-Papers-0014.

Date: 1954

By: London Films (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-MOUNTAINEERING-1954-01

Description: Flier or small poster shows a photograph of a masked mountaineer (Tensing Norgay) holding a flag on the top of Mount Everest, with an inset photograph of Sir Edmund Hillary at lower right. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 217 x 271 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Christchurch Book Auction, 29 August 2009, lot 125.

Date: ca 1920, 1930-1934

From: Moncrieff, Agnes Meikle, 1898-1988:Album of photographs of China and a portrait of the Moncrieff family

By: Shankland, Peter, 1876-1963

Reference: PAColl-7741-1

Description: Portrait of the Moncrieff family, taken ca 1920 by Peter Shankland of Carterton; and photographs from the album compiled by Agnes Meikle Moncrieff during her time in China (1930-1945), including postcards of Mount Everest, a portrait an international group who attended a convention (possibly for the YWCA) and a portrait of a Chinese woman. Arrangement: Photographs came from album PA1-o-1191 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1953

Reference: Eph-C-MOUNTAINEERING-1953-01

Description: Chart on one side of the sheet shows the ascent of Everest day by day from 11 April to 3 June 1953. It shows the routes taken by the assualt parties, climbing parties, and stores parties, and the altitude of each camp on the icefall, Western CWM, Lhotse Face, South Col and South Peak. The other side of the sheet gives biographical notes on 12 climbers and lists the leading sherpas. It also describes the mountain's geographical features and gives a diary of the climb. There is also a perspective drawing of the terrain covered and the route up the mountain. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 350 x 477 mm, originally folded to 180 x 122 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Meridian Rare Books, London, in 2015, lot 64.

Date: 1953 - 1973

From: Lambert, Max Edwin, 1936- : Papers relating to the 12th edition of Who's Who in New Zealand

Reference: MS-Papers-11961

Description: Consists of a folder of newspaper articles on and by Sir Edmund Hillary. An unsourced book review of George Lowe's 'From Everest to the South Pole' republished in 1961, discusses Lowe's association with Hillary. Three articles commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1953 ascent of Mt Everest by Hillary and Tensing Norkey, and assess this climbing achievement. They also discuss Hillary's character, career as a mountaineer and Antarctic explorer. One article mentions a planned circumnavigation of Cape Horn to be led by Hillary. Two newspaper articles by Hillary are included. The first, 'Ordeal on Makalu' (Sunday Times July 2 1961) gives an account of an unsuccessful ascent of Mt Makalu. In the second article, 'Forbidding Mt Herschel Yields Twice to Determined Team' (Evening Post Feb 1 1968) Hillary writes of the successful ascent of Mt Herschel by members of his team in October 1967. Also included in the folder are copies of Reuters telegraphs dated 14 and 15 May 1973. They announce Hillary's attendance in Darjeeling, India, at a world conference on mountaineering and other 20th Everest ascent anniversary observations. Also reported is an exchange between Hillary and members of an Italian Defence Ministry Expedition on the size and nature of their 1973 summit of Everest. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1954

From: [Ephemera relating to mountaineering and mountain climbing in New Zealand or by New Zealanders. 1900-1959]

By: World Adventure Tours (Canada)

Reference: Eph-A-MOUNTAINEERING-1954-03

Description: Programme booklet with photographs taken on the climb, and including advertisements for Sir John Hunt's book "The ascent of Everest", and the film "The conquest of Everest". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 225 x 152 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Meridian Rare Books, London, in June 2013.

Date: 1954

By: G J Hayter & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1954-01

Description: Boxed board game for which the instructions are printed inside the box lid. Players move counters along a track up to the summit of Everest, through Base Camp and 8 further camps, taking up 196 squares on the board. Player can be forced to turn back or wait, through such mishaps as illness, crevasses, crumbling ice, heavy snow, lack of supplies, gale force winds, broken rope and exhaustion. The game was published the year after the successful mountain climb of Everest, during which Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay reached the summit. Quantity: 1 board game. Physical Description: Game board, 450 x 298 mm, folded to 225 x 298 mm; die and six coloured plastic counters, all in box 320 x 235 x 30 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Meridian Rare Books, London, in June 2013. Formerly from the collection of Sir George Lowe.

Date: 1954

From: [Ephemera relating to mountaineering and mountain climbing in New Zealand or by New Zealanders. 1900-1959]

By: World Adventure Tours (Canada)

Reference: Eph-A-MOUNTAINEERING-1954-02

Description: Green ticket for admittance to a presentation by three of the Everest Expedition group of 1953, rubber stamped by the Registrar's Office at McGill University, and autographed by George Lowe. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on green card, 65 x 96 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Meridian Rare Books, London, in June 2013. Formerly from the collection of Sir George Lowe.

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

From: Riddiford family: Harold Earle Riddiford papers relating to Garhwal Himalaya and Everest Reconnaissance

By: Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PAColl-10769-11

Description: Contains photographic prints taken by Harold Earle Riddiford and others including Whites Aviation, circa 1940s to 1950s. Mountaineering photographs show alpine landscapes in the Southern Alps and Himalaya Mountains. Some prints are aerial photographs. A number of photographs are panoramic, constructed from multiple prints adhered together. A photograph of Mount Everest is annotated in blue pen and pencil with the route for the ascent with camp sites marked as well as the altitude of nearby peaks. A second photograph shows Mountt Tasman, Balfour Glacier, and Aoraki Mount Cook with a route marked on Mount Tasman. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Photographic prints arrived at the Library loose in a file box holding other material relating to mountaineering. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photographic prints and cardboard box. Processing information: .

Date: 1951

From: Riddiford family: Harold Earle Riddiford papers relating to Garhwal Himalaya and Everest Reconnaissance

Reference: MS-Papers-12631-12

Description: Contains inward correspondence (including telegrams), newspaper clippings, and a hand-drawn map relating to the 1951 British Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition. Correspondents include J D Hanning of the New Zealand Alpine Club, E H Peck (Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, New Delhi), G N Dutt (Geological Survey of India), Harry Stevenson (President of the New Zealand Alpine Club), R W Lloyd (Himalayan Joint Committee), C E J Crawford (The Himalayan Club), [Daniel?] Riddiford (D & R Beere & Co), and Sidar Pasang Lama. Also contains messages dictated by Eric Shipton. Telegrams regard entry to Nepal and press dispatches. Various topics are discussed in the correspondence, but many relate to the financing of the trip. Also contains newspaper clippings about the expedition and a clipping regarding a forthcoming lecture by Riddiford. There is a hand drawn map of the Kumbu [Khumbu] Glacier to Mount Everest summit. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Material arrived at the Library in box "1" stored in a plastic sleeve with note in pencil describing the contents as "Correspondence 51 Reconnaissance". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Not all names associated with this item are indexed.

Date: 1951

From: Riddiford family: Harold Earle Riddiford papers relating to Garhwal Himalaya and Everest Reconnaissance

Reference: MS-Papers-12631-25

Description: Contains notes by Harold Earle Riddiford on Mount Everest Expedition (1953). Title taken from item. Arrangement: Material arrived at the Library in box "2" in a clear plastic sleeve with a note in pencil reading "HER Everest notes" and a note in blue ink reading "18". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Processing information: Not all names associated with this item are indexed.

Date: 1953

By: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)

Reference: Eph-B-MOUNTAINEERING-1953-01/02

Description: Flier advertising the lecture, and a booklet with an introduction by Sir Edwin Herbert and Mr J Wordie. The booklet contains a list of members of the expedition, and a group photograph, as well as more individual photographs of Hillary and Tensing, Colonel John Hunt, Evans, Thyangboche Monastery. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flier and booklet, sizes varying up to 280 mm. Provenance: Donated by Gwenyth Margaret Hughes, Kaiapoi, in 2010.