Talk:Edmund Hillary

Semi-protected edit request on 7 November 2022
Add Category:Rolex people 112.213.218.114 (talk) 15:28, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: There is no mention of this in the article. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:11, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * See, for example, here: "When mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were prepping for their historic summit of Mount Everest in 1953, Rolex provided them with a prototype to wear on their expedition. That watch was the Rolex Explorer, and it’s been riding high on that adventurous legacy ever since." 205.239.40.3 (talk) 15:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I see that Malcolm Campbell is already in this Category, even though there is no mention in that article. 205.239.40.3 (talk) 09:32, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Malcolm Campbell was added by the anonymous editor who started this thread and who gave no rationale on the 7th November. I have removed the category as it is not supported by the article content. I shall be looking at the other articles in the category and removing them if unsupported. It looks to me very much like an attempt to use Wikipedia to advertise tacky watches. DuncanHill (talk) 10:04, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Surely you mean "to advertise prestigious, high-precision timepieces"? But what use is that Category anyway? 205.239.40.3 (talk) 10:23, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I suppose it helps to associate the brand with people like Campbell and Hillary, I'm surprised we don't have a Category:Rolex mountains. DuncanHill (talk) 10:29, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Statues to Sir Ed
Under the heading "Public Recognition" and before "A 2.3-metre (7.5 ft) bronze statue". Insert: There have been few memorials to individual New Zealanders since the 1960s. However, as the best-known New Zealander of his generation, Hillary was honoured with two statues in New Zealand – at the Hermitage beneath Aoraki/Mt Cook, and at Ōrewa, north of Auckland. The Ōrewa statue was erected in 1991 and was the work of a Chinese immigrant to New Zealand, Chen Wei-Ming.

There is a suitable image of the Ōrewa Statue here: https://teara.govt.nz/files/32577-nzh.jpg Eric Halfbee (talk) 04:14, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Sherpa
Early in the article it says Hillary "and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest". Among the Sherpa people, is there a belief that they (by themselves) reached the summit prior to that? That's something that isn't clear to me in a lot of articles on this.Rja13ww33 (talk) 01:23, 30 September 2023 (UTC)


 * If you find any credible website links for this, you could do it. JamesCook1728 (talk) 21:56, 26 April 2024 (UTC)