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Biography: Hillary, Edmund Percival

Portrait of a mountaineer

Portrait of a mountaineer

This life-size oil painting of Edmund Hillary by John Cecil Hill was painted around 1953, and shows him clad in climbing gear, holding a rope, goggles and an ice axe.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: G-463

Artwork by John Cecil Hill

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

How to cite this page

Shaun Barnett. 'Hillary, Edmund Percival', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/28332/portrait-of-a-mountaineer (accessed 4 June 2026).