Sir Edmund Hillary was an amazing man and has accomplished so much for New Zealand. He was born in Auckland in 1919 and grew up in Tuakau. He was part of the 1953 British team trying to climb Mt Everest. He succeeded and brought home his fame. He died in 2008 and became a New Zealand icon.
Sir Edmund Hillary is features on the five dollar note with a native penguin and mount Aoraki. These two things are iconic to New Zealand because one is our largest mountain and the other is an native species.
Stamps and banknotes are a way of preserving culture because the design can last for many years and they can be designed to capture iconic memoirs.
In 1958 Hillary edited a book called ' challenge of the unknown'. Why would the publishers want Hillary as an editor? The publishers would have wanted Hillary as the editor because of his experience with challenges of the unknown ( Mt Everest).
Edmund's phrase about how he was just an average bloke and the media made him into an icon shows how media and news can change our perception of people and things. The media can impact on a nations identity and culture because we learn things via the media and the media can obscure our view and opinion by adding and missing out details. A nations status is determined by how other people talk about and act towards a nation.
The qualities that both Michael Joseph Savage and Edmund Hillary share are they are both hard working, resilient , physically and mentally strong.
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