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Show To think of Edmund up there Express Staff Reporter WELLINGTON, Tuesday. They told Edmund Hillary's mother today that he had' climbed Everest. And she said : " To think of our Edmund up there I must tell Perce." Perce is the father. "Perce," Mrs. Hillary called upstairs, "Perce our Edmund is at the top." THOSE BEES Edmund Hillary, the Auckland beekeeper, climbed those last gasping steps to the peak with Bhutia Tensing in time for Coronation Day. How did he succeed where all others had failed ? Because he was the toughest of them all and because of honey. Archibald Lowe, father of George Lowe, the other New Zealand member of Colonel John Hunt's Everest expedition, said tne two were tough because of "eating honey and not smoking." 1 Todav. acting Prime Minister Keith Holyoake interrupted the State Coronation ' service to announce that Hillary had climbed Everest. |