Edmund Hillary: a national hero is remembered in New Zealand and Nepal ; The funeral of the man who conquered Everest was an occasion for mourning in the land of his birth and the country where he made history. Kathy Marks reports

From: Belfast Telegraph | Date: January 23, 2008 | Copyright information

In St Mary's Anglican Church, local and international dignitaries paid their respects to one of the greatest adventurers of the 20th century. Outside, in the streets of Auckland, thousands of New Zealanders followed the service, which was also beamed live around the region, on big screens.

The four surviving members of Sir John Hunt's 1953 Everest expedition were among those who joined the Hillary family in the large, Gothic wooden church. They included Sir Edmund's fellow New Zealander George Lowe, to whom he famously remarked on his descent: "Well, we knocked the bastard off."

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