Yesterday we marked the 60th anniversary of the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay. A towering achievement in anybody's money.
At the same time I didn't send somebody an email asking: "And how old are we, then? Six?"
We live in exciting times.
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I spread some Hillary Honey on my toast and clipped all the newspaper articles (including some written by the young James Morris, at Base Camp, for, I think , the Times)and was really pissed off years later when I learned that the news had been "held back' as an extra bit of coronation bling.
No, I didn't send that email, either.
I remember it well. It seemed so romantic that they did it(sort of) for the young Elizabeth
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