 
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary" class="extiw" title="en:Edmund Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a> packs sack (possibly with bedding or clothing) in preparation for the 1957 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition" class="extiw" title="en:Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition">Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research#New_Zealand" class="extiw" title="en:Department of Scientific and Industrial Research">Department of Scientific and Industrial Research</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracefield,_New_Zealand" class="extiw" title="en:Gracefield, New Zealand">Gracefield</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Hutt" class="extiw" title="en:Lower Hutt">Lower Hutt</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" class="extiw" title="en:New Zealand">New Zealand</a>.
</p><p>Photograph taken 1956 for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evening_Post_(New_Zealand)" class="extiw" title="en:The Evening Post (New Zealand)"><i>The Evening Post</i></a> by an unidentified staff photographer.
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Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm.
Unidentified staff photographer for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evening_Post_(New_Zealand)" class="extiw" title="en:The Evening Post (New Zealand)"><i>The Evening Post</i></a>
Edmund Hillary packs [bedding? clothing?] into a sack in preparation for the 1957 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Negatives of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP/1956/2725-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://beta.natlib.govt.nz/records/22352091">http://beta.natlib.govt.nz/records/22352091</a>