Transgender pioneer, the last surviving member of Hillary’s Everest team, and one of the world’s greatest travel writers – Jan Morris, who died this week aged 94, was one of a kind. Just as international travel has become a vicarious pursuit, one of the great travel writers has passed away. Jan Morris wrote about the … Read more
The memory of Sir Edmund Hillary is still fresh, but as the years roll by it may not stay that way. Josie Adams ranks the ways future generations could learn about our national hero. As we head into winter and ski season I’m reminded of our country’s biggest snowbunny, Sir Edmund Hillary. We know … Read more
Hamish Parkinson investigates one of our great nation’s least-known foundational moments: Sir Edmund Hillary’s ultimately fruitless 1960 expedition to Nepal to look for the yeti.