24 Oct 2012

Tramper Lew Shaw rediscovers famous signature

From Afternoons, 2:17 pm on 24 October 2012

More than 60 years ago an Auckland beekeeper scrawled his name on a hut used by trampers and mountaineers in mid-Canterbury. For years, mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the pencilled words... 'Ed Hillary 1951'. However Lew Shaw has rediscovered the famous signature.