Did you see Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary when they visited Christchurch in 1971?
, opens a new windowIn 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay successfully made it to the summit of Mount Everest. 18 years later Tenzing Norgay and his wife, Dakku, were finally able to take up Sir Edmund Hillary's long standing invitation to visit New Zealand. As well as attending some fundraising events for the Himalayan Trust, they all toured around New Zealand seeing the sights. While in Christchurch they visited Avonside Girls High School and Christchurch Boys High School. Were you one of the students there at the time? Perhaps you know some of the students in the images?
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These images are just some of thousands in the Christchurch Star Archive that we house and are working through to digitise and make accessible online. There are over 9,600 negatives, opens a new window and 5,590 prints, opens a new window to explore in this particular collection. We now have a total of over 31,790 items, opens a new window that you can explore in Canterbury Stories that include photographs, negatives and maps.
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