QI | What Did Hillary Do After Everest? 

One day when the kids were young they were making a sand castle on St Helliera beach. Along came a man who stopped to admire it and said how it reminded him of my Everest. It was Ed Hillary. A good bloke.

I love Rob referring to Edmund Hillary's yeti sketch as "the chap in the drawing".

I had the honour of meeting Sir Hillary when I was about 8 years old in the 1980s, in Nelson NewZealand. He, and a crowd of Nelsonians, including me, hiked up the hill known as "The Centre Of New Zealand". He pretty much had a permanent broad smile on his face If I remember correctly, he was in the army, and every morning he would wake before the other cadets, climb a nearby mountain and be back in time for breakfast!

"Have you found one?" "Not yeti"

He climbed back down again! *klaxons*

I love that Rob was so wrapped up in his bit about cellphones that he was caught off guard by the drawing

Besides a mountaineer & explorer, New Zealander Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) was a Bee keeper

My favourite thing about Ed Hillary is when I am sitting on a bench in Wanaka, New Zealand one of his great friends is buried there and he has a bench facing the lake, the quote on this bench from Ed Hillary goes: "The man with the yak heart" which I think sums up the man.

RB's resemblance to EH is uncanny.

I'm surprised no one said "Did he everest?"

"Did he find the Abominable Snowman?" "No- Not Yeti."

ozzie accent into afrikans accent

Rob Bryson had a noble attempt at a Kiwi accent, started Aussie and ended up South African. You can do better than that, Rob!

Stephen's reaction when Rob did the Hillary smile.

I think it's quite unfair to call Bigfoot "the abominable snowman". They've never met him. How do they know if he's "abominable" or not? He might be quite a pleasant fellow, for all we know. Doing a lot of good work for Yeti charities and such.

Sir Ed was a great Kiwi... Very modest and a damn fine bloke...

I guess one could say it was the *peak* of his career. One may also say everything went downhill from there. Perhaps he developed a drinking problem that *snowballed* out of control.

Alan Davies seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of everything related to Mount Everest.

They sure kept that expedition quiet. Lived in NZ my whole life and never heard about it

On the commentary track with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens on the LOTR DVDs, it’s hard to tell the difference when they talk about Arwen and Eowyn.

4:17 Rob: Ooh good God, what’s that? Me: Isn’t that Brian Blessed?

He also drove a tractor to the South Pole.

There was a youth choir movement in Norway in the 70’s called «Ten-sing Norge». That one doesn’t travel well either really.

He was a beekeeper. His first wife and his daughter died in a plane crash in the Himalayas.

Also went overland by tractor to the South Pole, and if you were asking what did he do as in what was his job, he was a beekeeper.

I thought they were going to mention his 1958 expedition to the south pole by (modified) tractor. It was the first to reach the pole overland since Scott. "He went to the south pole by tractor" would have been a good funny line!

He did a spot of product endorsements for Sears camping equipment. I own a "Sir Edmund Hillary Tent".

3:03 Colin Meads

Imagine they used the "Yeti hunt” as a diaguise for the spying mission against the chinese and they ACTUALLY FIND the Yeti.

At some point, in an interview (in the 1990's, I think) Sir Ed did relate the details of his arrival at the 'top of the world'. On the final ridge, as they advanced toward each apparent 'peak' ( but really only bumps on the final sawtooth ridge), they took turns on the rope at leading/following. By chance - Tenzing led up the final stretch, and only found enough width to step aside and wave Ed through, some 3 steps short of the very top. Anyway, his spiritual beliefs would not allow him to be first to 'defile' the sacred place. But because Ed never thought to teach Tenzing how to use the camera - that is why there are three photos of TENZING on the peak, and none of Ed. I have seen that camera. I adapted Ed's story into one of the sequences in my live-storytelling show. (& met them both, BTW. - I have a curious connect to that event!!)

Weren't Edmund Hilary's first words as he stepped onto the top of Everest - and to Tensing- "I thought You had the camera.......?" His second words were......."Isn't that Everest over there!? "

Another thing he did was get a terrace house in Melbourne. Appropriately a remarkably tall and thin one.

As a kiwi, this is hilarious 😂

Imagine if they actually were on a spy mission and accidentally came across the Abominable Snowman.

I’m a New Zealander!

Surely he walked down the mountain before anything else?

I noticed the same thing the one time I watched a Bigfoot Hunters tv show. They were loud and they swung heavy-duty lights all around. The worst hunter in the world knows better.

There's Rob ding impressions again 😂😂

His attempt sounds like a South African lol

Hillary was a guide for people on Antarctic sightseeing flights Air New Zealand ran in the 70s. He was nearly on the infamous ANZ 901 that crashed into Mount Erebus, but he had other commitments, so his friend took his place.

In his later years, he walked past our house in Portland Rd, every day. I would sit there and wait for him to pass ^_^

The graffiti actually read "Australia Sux" and someone in response wrote underneath "New Zealand Nil"

The joke about Kiwis and the word "six" elicited an immediate and powerful laugh from me. So well done!

He actually said "We knocked the bugger off"

'Ave-a-rest.

One of the things he did was meet me, near Everest. :-]

Hillary also went up the Ganges From the delta to its source.

I just realized something, tenzin in uncharted 2 was based on the guide next to Edmund in the picture.

You know who Sir Hillary looks like in the Yeti pic? Mark Harmon. (Gibbs in NCIS.)

I'm from New Zealand and everyone I know says six. It annoys me when they say New Zealand then do an Australian accent

I believe his next challenge was squeezing into Subaru Sherpa for a TV commercial

Edmund Hillary also became the first person to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole.

After scaling the heights of Everest Hillary had a stroke of genius, he discovered climbing back down.

Went to snowdonia and signed a pub ceiling

Edmund Hillary did climb mountains after Everest, and he went to the South Pole. Oh, and he flew to the North Pole with Neil Armstrong. True fact.

Delete his emails?

Did he... 'ave a rest?

Fred McCauley at his best.

He climbed back down. Obviously.

Rob Brydon is a comedy god.

There was probably someone before them who reached the summit.

Hey, what happened to Alan saying "See‽ No hat!"

Ms. Toksvig: "Only an expedition that was extraordinarily quiet might find it." Kowasi: "R'as Al Ghul's ninja school was based in that area, and yetis are basically wookies, and Qui-Gon-Jon played Mr. Liam Neeson in Episode I as well..."

Rob's Kiwi ecksint got away from him. He ended up sounding more like an Efrikawnuh.

Lets get this clear, New Zealanders pronounce 6 as 'sucks' and Australians say 'seeks'.

Did he ‘ave a rest?

The joke goes; at a time when there was a high population of kiwi immigrants living in the Sydney suburb of Bondi, a particularly disenchanted one had graffitied on a wall 'australia sux' and some aussie wag added 'New Zealand nil' under it.

I mean, of course they summited it together...? They didn't split up and go by themselves, they literally did it together. How is there an argument on who was first when it was the same expedition?

Both men kept the secret of who topped mt Everest first to themselves until death.

Yeah, Rob Brydon and Sir Edmund Hillary are twins but for that slight 11" difference in height!

Mixture of Courtois and Mason Mount 😂

He climbed down?

The only thing missing from this clip is Steve Coogan telling Rob he doesn't look at all like Edmund Hillary.

Sandi saying 'does it count if the Sherpa carries all your stuff for you' is so hideously ignorant. That expedition would have ended in a failed ascent if it wasn't for Ed Hilary, and the same can be said for Tensing. They were a team, both absolutely crucial to the assault on the summit of Everest

I'm pretty bloody sure when mountaineers "share a rope" up to a 29000 foot summit the ropes length is irrelevant and negligible.

The title question has been answereed by the guy who looks so much like him. I guess mountains aren't the only thing he climbed. .

New Zealanders derived their pronunciation of the letter 'i' from the English settlers so we say it virtually the same, it's Australians that don't differentiate between pronunciation of 'i' and 'e'. That is about the only obvious difference between the two accents.

Slumberdown

I'm more inclined to believe the spying story using the yeti as misdirection.

Bill

Having befriended his son Peter through his business partner I feel I Should point out the abominable snowman was probably me. I was six foot nine upon leaving school and was addressed by associates as Sachquash. The American side of the family. Sir Edmond built a hundred schools, drove a jet boat from the highest valley to Bangladesh and built a hundred hospitals. Any who feel they can take the piss might first find a man who did better and gave more.

I reckon he would ‘ave a rest. >KLAXON

Dalas

Not Edmund Hillary, but SIR Edmund Hillary.

Why do people put Tensing's job title in front of his name, they never say "mountaineer Edmund Hillary"

1:54 - Didn't realise Sandy Toksvig was so demeaning. Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was Ed Hillary's climbing partner - an equal. He wasn't there to "carry someone's luggage" for them.

Then he went and drove a Ferguson tractor to the south pole

Surprisingly good Kiwi accent from Rob Brydon considering

Mrs Hillary that's the answer to the question in the thumbnail also its Australia sux Kiwis nil

Beekeeper!

um, Aussies say Elvis. i think you are cross-beaming the Saffer, Kiwi, Aussie, and it's quite hilarious.

I mean, if we have Sasquatch, aka Bigfoot, here in North America, why can't the Himalayas have the Yeti?

Looking for a Yeti? It's not rocket science.

What the hell this was posted yesterday?

'Kiss me, Tensing'. How many points for that?

Avarest.

I have never heard anyone imitating a NZ accent actually sound like a nzer. Kiwis can spot you a mile away! You all think they are saying"sucks "and" fush and chups" but they are actually saying "six" and "fish and chips" just with an NZ accent

Show some respect It’s Sir Edmund

He wrote a cookbook that is only available in NZ.

Surely after conquering Everest he climbed back down?