HILLARY’S EVEREST TENT

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27896, 18 February 1956, Page 11

HILLARY’S EVEREST TENT

REPLICA GIVEN TO MUSEUM To provide a display substitute for the original two-man tent used by Sir Edmund Hillary in the ascent of Everest, the makers have made and presented an exact replica to the Canterburv Museum. “When the Everest collection arrived at the* Museum in August, 1954. the original tent had suffered such deterioration that display would be impossible without expert renovation. It was forwarded to the makers in the hope that this could be done, but the London firm’s experts decided it was beyond repair, and generously offered to make a replica at their own expense,” said the director (Dr. Roger Duff) in his report to the Canterbury Museum Trust Board. The replica has now arrived, and will be featured in the Ascent of Everest display—one of the themes in the Hall of Transport. Shirking, and Exploration in the enlarged museum. From the Transvaal Museum. Pretoria, the museum has received the first collection to reach New Zealand or Australia of casts of the extinct Australopithecene apes of South Africa. In all. 44 casts of the most important fossils found to date have been received in exchange for a Pyramid Valley moa skeleton. “There are many grounds for regarding these apes, which 1.000.000 years ago were able to walk upright, as the most ancient direct ancestors of man,” said Dr. Duff.