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CHAPTER 1

THE chubby yet sturdy little five-year-old boy seemed a good deal woo young for a fast lop round the outer circul ut Brooklands, H# father) ปี burly, quiet, genial and determined-looking man, did

not seem to think so. Alfred Moss, dentist whose passion was motor racing, strapped his son Stirling firmly into the passenger seat. Then he moved out of the paddock, steadily gaining speed, Soon the CAT was high од the banking. Young Stirling held on aimly bul golly, Perhaps he was. slightly scared, but he did not yell, AL the wheel, Altred Moss smiled happily to himself. The boy had nervel

pfrut

on

was

One might almost say that

Moss Stirling Crmiford born

September 17, 1929-with petrol in his velns. His father, Alfred Moss, hind gone off as a young man to the United States in study dentistry, Fils father shrewdly suspected that this was not Alfred's only object and he was right.

In The Blood

The Indiana Denial College, where Alfred Moss perfected his professional qualitleations, slands close by the famous Indianopolis mator-racing track. It was for the track as much, perhaps, as for the College that Alfred Moss hal come to the Stales.

In 1924, when he was twenty- eight, Alfred Moss drove one of Louis Chevrolet's Fronty-Fords and came in fifteenth. In 1925, he drove a Miller and became the only Englishman to have competed at Indianopolis twice. Sturdy Alfred Moss is now a prosperous pedigree, pig fanner at Tring. He has also a dental surgery off the Strand. raced at Brooklands as well as Indianopolis. He was the Brst man to lap the Surrey track In a Fronty-Ford at hundred miles an hour,

il

He has

And Stirling's mother, in her blouse and trousers, is also familiar figure around the trucks. She, too, has speed in her veins. She learned to drive in the tough school of rallies and trials.

First Cars

From the start, the boy loved the wheel. every minute at And like boys with this hobby, he was always swopping or part-exchanging an older car for a newer and to him more An M.G. coupe Exciting one. was followed, by the timo was seventeen, by a B.M.W. 328

he

oris cur Is parents began to wonder: Was young Stirling developing too much long one irack?

himself Alfred

hack Moss keen deeply bitten by the speed bug. For that reason he worried about whether it was right for young Stirling to de- vote his whole life to the sport

of motor racing. It is one

"In the absence of His Royal Highness I shall endeavour to instil learning by the less spectacular but well-proven methods. Come out the boy who wrote this patriotic message.”

Crowning Glory

A man of the Ge

TN London it was June 2, 136 Coronation Day. Thousands bursting

of

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dim ken of honouring

wils dich news that he was to difficult, but SOCO afterwards people, receive the George Medal for his with patriotism, efforts, had camped out for glimpse of the Queen. Two 'elock in the morning-rain and wind and cold.

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he lectured and celebrated, with all the New Zealander's natural breeziness. Medals were struck for him, and and blocks of finis named after him.

It would be wrong to de terlbc Hlury as shy, and yet, after the first few days, he began to find the role of hero rather trying. He tried to escape by taying with his married sister and her doctor husband in Nor- wich. But even here, he found that to venture out of dools meant being surrounded by a crowd of admirers. His Bft Bins frame and his craggy face were impossible to mistake. Perhaps now he thought back to that day in New Zealand when he had seen the mountaineers Stevensen and Dick, and envied them their little knot of enthusiasts.

Four week of Britain, and

afr he was

to New Zealand again, slipping out of the country as quietly as he could manage. He hadn't been bacit more than After the first flush of a few days when he was once enthusiasm an insidious ques- again hitting the headlines with ton began to be asked. Who was the news of his engagement to netually first on the mount? A Louise Rose-who, you'll 70- foolish point really, because the member, lived a few doors away two climbers were interdepen-1, from him in Auckland. dent. But it seemed that Tenzing's native amcious to claim honour for itself.

state that

Was

if I

"just pressed on, that the trouble with my ribs would pass and would be able to do u weful job." But it didn't pass.,

The breaking point

came several weeks later, when he was trying to do some fast climb

making good g

"We were

speed," he said, "but 1 seemed to be unusually short of breath and had a dull pain in my side. I spent a bad night, and next morning was too weak to move." From there, he grew worse. He spent the next night shiver- ing in a fever, the pain in his side drumming through his whole body. When George Lowe realised how ill he was he call ed off the climb and turned all the party's efforts to getting Hillary down safely.

A Sherpa took the lead, with Lowe and another man support- ing him on either side, while the fifth member of the team follow- ed behind,

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Rand and honey,

In the evenings he would sit in his armchair at their un- pretentious home and perhapa listen to Louise playing the violin.. And every so often he would glance above the Bre place to where the ice axe he had carried on Everest was gently rusting away.

more hives collecting

ber 1054. Young Peter Edmund His son was born in Decem-

was a lusty child, with especially long legs and big feet, inherited from his father, Hillary was 'im- mensely proud of him.

Plans were already afoot for the great Commonwealth An- wretic Expedition of 1050-7, und early in 1835 he was saying out loud that he hoped to be in- cluded. If New Zealand was sending a contingent then ho

be in it. wanted to

If New Zealand couldn't manage it, hei wanted to go with the British party. Either way he was staking They made good à claim.. time at first, but after a while Hillary weakened. He needed They more and longer rests. came to a slight rise, and even with support he couldn't get up it. He tell flat on his face and couldn't summon the strength to rise. So he tried crawling.

Antarctica

And as if to prove he was pow fit onough for such a venture he sealed Mount

the,] Magellan highest unclimbed peak in New

Zealand. special

3

It came as a complete surprise. He had even gone on record a little while before as telling reporter that he had never thought about getting married; "Perhaps." he said, "It's because

This was too much. Once again he pitched forward, and every- thing went black. The days that failoved passed in. phaze of puta and plghtmares. When be

Hillary Leedn't have worked. In June he was invited to lead" the New Zealand party on the Antarctic trip; more than that, to

I never seem 10 have much came to, it was to find himself undertake int leadership of

time."

The newspaprs burst the street with their news; even

Lake the Ceronition hed to second pleee for a while: "THE CROWNING CLORY: EVEREST IS CLIMBED" They proclaimed.

Hillary Was furious "We "TREMENDOUS NEWS FOR

thought we were climbing a THE QUEEN: HILLARY DOES mountain," he stormed. "Now it IT." And underneath, a senti-

scems we've got into a political

ou makeshift stretcher. For the whole expedition with, Dr ment that everybody echoed:

three days Sherpas carried him Vivlon Fuchs. "Who Cares Now It It Snows conflict with no holds barred."

As soon as the question was Anyway, the

cooed down papers

country arst through jee. then over and Tenzing their stories: SIR EDMUND treacherous Remember the impact of these raised, Hillary

the whole HILLARY TO MARRY CHILD- tumbled rocks, lastly round the to squash tidings? The terrife swelling of agreed

As Tenzing HOOD SWEETHEART" They base of a glacier. hearts such as had never been stupid argunient

"What does it said:

matter made gat play of this line, but felt since V-Day, Hillary, who whether I reached the top first if the couple ever were childhood had just been ce came in

or Hillary Our main thought sweethearts they were the most list of climbers, was all at once

was There us reached the unusual children, was that both national hero. And an inter- national hero.

top. We had to. One could not eleven yeas between them. do it alone."

Louise had blossomed into an attractive, vivacious giri of twenty-three. She was studying music, a subject of which her Bance was unashamedly ignor-

He didn't know all this at the time. Bo was delighted, of course. So was everyone. Perhaps his most abiding memory. of the was the look whole adventure

Was 1?

Unhappily, his later

What Fuss

"My world became one of angles," he said, "of spires tuting impossibly over my head, of ley torrents flowing uphill."

His reaction to this illness was

The expedition's aim was to

the Polar ice cap fcam cross Vahsel Bay to McMurdo Sound, an overland distance of 1,800 miles. Dr Fuchs' party was to make the major crossing, while Hillary's band came forward to meet him from the far side.

Planning this trip, Hillary was as happy as he had ever been. He put his whole party through rigorous training schedule, then left New Zealand on what has been called "the last great journey in the world.

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For her part, Louise's one of anger at his body for its state. ant. on John Hunt's face as he heard ments were at some variance. At confined to a healthy but vague man to indulge in self pity.

knowledge of mountains tvas weakness, Hillary was never the news.

different times he declared: respect,

Runners brought down news

It is a journey fraught with But he began to feet the re-

ahead of Hillary collapsed Louise may have

hig cos had an of (a) That

the danger. Remember that Seolt of his achievement

Louise, percussions

who died with all his men on this reached when he

Katmandu, short of the summit, and he had indeling, then, of what marriage stretcher party.

to go back to help him up: means to a partner ilke Edmund. was expecting a child in Auck barren stretch of ice. In his ret Indian tele- where the small was

(b) That they reached the Not only must you share him land, was frantic with worry as weeks at the Polar base Hillary graph office and the British Em-

with others, but you must al- she waited to hear whether her had a foretaste of the perils in basay had both been jammed top egether; and

(e) That in fact Hillary was ways be prepared for him to get husband was dead or alive. The store. He and two of his men for days with coming messages.

From all over the world came first, and he had followed six that itch to move on, to go back Nepalese Government sent out a

to the mountains or forward to team of mountaineers to find tractor, which was! towing a feet behind. was more

and help him, · the Indian sledge loaded congratulations. It

with stores fjom somewhere new and itrange. than triumph for Hillary and

Already, Hillary was begin Government stood by with heli-

sbip, Endeavour. Tenzing: more than an added

copters to dy him out of danger. Without warning the

tractor atre to the new reign, it was

ning to fidget.

For a week the world buzzed crashed through thin ice into

rumours and counter- a monument to Man's struggle

deep water; but by some freak ageinst Nature.

rumours. He was said to have of chance the edge ran on malaria (which was probably and wedged the tractor in its hole. The three meni escaped with a

wetting.

of

the most dangerous of all sports;

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re-

it is also one whose devotees, until they have established high professional status, tend to

of live in an atmosphere

crisis. Bul current financial Alfred

It Mass must have

humour, cognised, with ructul

to that he had only himself

If Stirling Moss loved racing. It WIK because his parents did. And if he was t enough to enough and tough become a great racing motorist, it was because of the way his parents hat brought bim up.

blaine

Honour

one that

Himalayas

with

true) and pneumonia (which wasn't),

were

in the cab 'al

base their

snow

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We don't want to imply from was trilling this that Tenzing with the facts. But with his of English limited knowledge he always found it difficult to make himself clearly understood. And anyway, Tenzing is a ma Bo anxious to please that he The Himalayas were in his seems to have been putty in the blood, so much a part of him

When he reappeared, better

Danger Hillary's stock in: that in the 'Spring of 1984' he Among all the mustages was hands of tough reporters.

he was amazed trade. Many times he has known No matter how the controversy had to go back, leading a New but debilitated,

at the concern he had caused fear and more than once he has special Gave pleasure. A formal announce raged, Hillary stood his ground. Zealand expedition to the un-

George and went around asking what been co nodding terms

with ment that ran: "The Queen has Whenever it was eurgested that explored Barun Valley.

was about. And death. So why does no go on? approved that the honour of he was first he simply smiled Lowe, who had been best man all the fuss

afterwards, es a typical What is he looking for? What is Knighthood be centered upen and seld "Wes 12" And there at his wedding, went with 200

Ast-in-the-air gesture, he said bo trying to prove? Wo end as Calenel Henry Cceit Jch Hunt, the matter as rested, and wil Sim

coming back we began, asking questions for This journey to remarkable he would. CB.E., D.SO., and that Mr rest.

1958 to take up where he had which there is no answer. We Edmund Hillary be appointed a Fame sal lightly on the new largely for the fact that it no left off.

can only accept the fact, with Knight Commander of the Order Sir Edmund. As he and Tenzing ly killed Hillary where Everest miley of had failed, A climber named

ogaia, Sir Edmund tried gratitude, that there are then Σταντά Stirling's mother taught him of the British Empire,"

walked through

which hnd From now on he shouldn't be triumphal arches into Katmandu McFarlene was attacking a peak to concentrate on his bee-keeping like Sir Edmund Hillary. The been enda of the carth are their horse to ride a

when he

prospering remarkably in his home, the sky is their limit, dnd'] was only six. At the same age, called "E" any mere, but "Sh he smiled and jeleed; he was when he fell down a crevasse. business, Surling

was learning from his Edmund a fact that supplied his still smiling, still joking when The rescue turned out to be a

with a Limitless they arrives at London Airport tricky affair, and it cost Hillary long absence. Some days he perhaps we can be glad too that worked li The offles, others he the world holds adventure, still. father to alt on his lap and steer companicos

crowd of a couple of injured ribs. the family car, his stubby little stream of Jokies. Nellier was in July to fece a

climbed aboard the lorry and He shrugged off the injury and

went on a round of the thou-

THE END legs straining out towards those tantalising petals.

not a British subject the prob- receptions and press conferences, went on climbing. "I was sure,

Horse Sonse

WOS

for

But horses, not cars, were Surling's first great love. Hun- dreds of cups and awards riding won by film found their into the Mom home. way Others were won by his sister Pat Avo years younger than a beautiful Surling. He rider. He controlled the horse, never the horse him. From horsemanship he learned the secret of balance and rode his horica as he now drives his cart almost like a centaur, like a nfan who has become part of his mount.

On the starling ling,

today.

iso never shows the least trace of nerves. That Is a lesson he Searned from horse-riding.

Monday

Tonzing forgotten. Since he was cheering people. He ant through

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