Show Hillary To Speak Sir Edmund New as a chief consultant to the Australasian operations of The World Book A NATIVE of Hillary made his first five expeditions to the Himalayas after world war On May he and a tribesman from conquered the world's tallest mountain Mount Everest achievement that earned him a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth His book published in 1956 is an account ot the WORLD Book Encyclopedia subsequently sponsored his next two expeditions to the Himalayas one in 1960 to test survival at high altitudes without incidental to which was the expedition's conclusion that no such animal as the An ardent admirer of the rugged Sherpa 1 1 J 1 r 1 c of jj n ui who on the frontier facing Hillary returned to the Himalayas and in with funds donated by World Book sales he constructed new Sherpa two an airfield and in 1966 hospital in the village of FOLLOWING the completion of the Sir Edmund with his Lady and their three children that 10 and completed a trek across visited the Everest base camp and climbed a nearby Lady Louise is having a book published by Doubleday on this adventure called Yak for In October and November Hillary took a scientific and mountaineering expedition to the conducting mapping and scientific IN MAY of the adventurous Hillary family went camping through the deserts of Central and from August to Hillary was in the Himalayas completing another Sherpa and leading an expedition through the rapid-flowing jungle rivers of east Nepal using two jet boats as means of The purpose of this trip was to prove that risers could be used for communication and IN SEPTEMBER of Sir Edmund returned to the Himalayas to make preparations for a major school development expedition to take place in April and May of 1970 utilizing the funds raised by World Book managers and representatives during his June and 1969 tour in the United States and humanitarian Sir Edmund is all these and j much more a man equally at home feet up a or battling the rapids of a Nepalese river as he is on network television discussing a very perceptive layman's point of the emerging lands of the future and New or Western man as viewed through Asian eyes SIR Edmond Hillary in person will address members of school board principles at IS June He will also speak to teachers and public at that HE IS being sponsored through the courtesy of the World Book Company SIR EDMUND HILLARY |