A keen Kiwi posts video of the procession, as Sir Edmund Hillary’s coffin is driven through Auckland, en route to the Cathedral where he lies in state… the funeral’s today. Is it insensitive to point out that his achievement, as first to scale Everest, is a colonian fabrication. As my colleague Denis points out, locals had been climbing the mountain for generations. And even on Hillary’s expedition, there was some scandal around the notion that his faithful sherpa, Tenzing Norgay may have technically been first. But first white guy to climb everest is still nothing to sneeze at, I suppose…
