Adventurer Edmund Hillary returned to Antarctica

The explorer Edmund Hillary, the first to conquer the summit of Everest, the ' world roof ' in 1953 returned to Antarctica this week, nearly half a century after joining the first South Pole expedition by car. .

Adventurer Edmund Hillary (Photo: artsales)

Mr. Hillary, a New Zealander, 87 years old, arrived in Antarctica on January 18 with New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and an official delegation on the 50th anniversary of New Zealand's Scott base in Antarctica.

The basis for this research was set up in the framework of the Commonwealth Trans-South expedition in 1958 with Mr. Hillary leading a support group. This is the first expedition to cross the continent by car. Hillary's group at that time had the task of installing food supplies to ensure the supply of food to the delegation when returning to Scott base from Antarctica on the edge of the continent.

But Mr. Hillary went another way, so he first arrived in the South Pole on January 4, 1958. This time he will make the expedition in more comfortable terms than almost half a century ago.

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