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shoes, leather tennis (pair)

human history
  • Other Name

    Trekking shoes (descriptive name)

    Sir Edmund Hillary (associated name)

  • Description

    Pair of Size 14 Adidas leather tennis shoes, belonging to Sir Edmund Hillary. Last pair of trekking shoes he used during the 1990's for his trekking in the mountains where the schools and hospitals are. They have walked the 4000 metre pathways of the Everest region for years.

    Kept in Nepal up to 2015.

  • Place
  • Associated Place
  • Accession Number
    2017.30.1
  • Accession Date
    03 Apr 2017
  • Department
shoes, tennis used as trekking

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