'Dishevelled' pilot who caused Hillary family tragedy should have been barred from flying, new biography revealsNZ FILM ARCHIVE Edmund Hillary during the 1953 ascent of Everest. Pathologist and climber Michael Gill accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on many adventures, and was given unparalleled access to the Hillary family archive for his new book Edmund Hillary A Biography. Sir Edmund Hillary pictured with Lady Hillary in New York in 1959. He had a reputation for being disorganised, as Louise's encounters attest:HILLARY MUSEUM COLLECTION Louise Hillary, Belinda Hillary, Julia Gresson and Sarah Hillary in early 1975. Write soon,My best wishes and love, PeterPOSTSCRIPTForty years later, an unexpected letter to Peter Hillary filled in some back history:Dear Mr. Hillary… Peter Shand's father bought him a small plane when he was still a teenager.

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