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[HILLARY & LOWE RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND AFTER CONQUERING EVEREST]

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Year
1953
Reference
F26725
Media type
Moving image

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Rights Information
Year
1953
Reference
F26725
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Actuality
Duration
0:01:37
Production company
A.H. Reynolds
Credits
Filmed: Alfred Harry Reynolds

Edmund Hillary and George Lowe, on board a TEAL Flying Boat, arrive at an Auckland wharf for a public welcome after scaling Mt Everest.

Brief underexposed footage of [mountain].

Members of the public wait on the wharf; TEAL Flying Boat taxiing to wharf.

NZ flag over gateway; public in foreground; TEAL Flying Boat taxiing to dockway; people disembarking from Flying Boat; crowd waiting on wharf.

Hillary and Lowe walk along gangway and are met by family and friends.

Hillary picks up a child [Peter Hillary] and kisses a woman [Louise Rose]; after mingling with the crowd they ascend the dais for official speeches, beginning with the Mayor. Hillary and Lowe both speak; brief shot of press photographers.

Various shots of dignitaries on dais; Hillary and Lowe leave the terminal amidst the well-wishers gathered; their vehicle leaves the scene under police escort.