October 4, 2018

That time Sir Edmund Hillary went in search of the yeti

The Spinoff | Staff writers
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Hamish Parkinson investigates one of our great nation’s least-known foundational moments: Sir Edmund Hillary’s ultimately fruitless 1960 expedition to Nepal to look for the yeti.

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