Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
It’s 10pm in New Zealand and Peter Hillary, son of Sir Edmund Hillary, is chatting to me from a remote location where the WiFi can just about withstand an interview.
He explains how he and his grandchildren set up clothing line, Edmund Hillary, recreating the wares of the world-famous mountaineer.
How did the business come about?
Well, it was one of those chance meetings with a man called Mike (EH’s co-founder and CEO). He got in touch with me when we were in London attending the thanksgiving service for my father’s life at Windsor Castle.
We discussed the possibility of trying to do something like this which would also benefit the work and the legacy of my father, particularly in Nepal, but also in outdoor activities for young people.
It’s been in the making since 2008. We’ve been working on various versions of the range and in the past few years, we’ve got investment and come up with some wonderful designs and so we launched towards the end of 2018.
The thing is that the clothing really isn’t made for mountaineers, it’s more for people who like the idea of mountaineering or who are mountaineers but are off-duty, so