NZ can care for huts on its own.(PERSPECTIVES) From: New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) | Date: January 24, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Independent News & Media PLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

SIR EDMUND HILLARY'S return to Scott Base for its 50th anniversary has brought a reminder that his polar expedition of 1957 was an act of insubordination, probably less delightful at the time than it seems now. The New Zealanders were to establish the base as a supply depot for a Commonwealth transantarctic expedition led by British geologist Sir Vivian Fuchs. Having done so, Hillary's team were supposed to lay up and wait for Fuch's party to trek across the continent from Shacklet...

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