After a ten day search, the Greenpeace ship Esperanza has located and confronted the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica.
It was reported today that the Esperanza had actually chased the fleet out of the hunting grounds, but so far this hasn’t been confirmed.
The ship had located the fleet early Saturday morning Australian time, and had immediately [...]

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history in 1953 when they successfully climbed Mount Everest.
Born July 20, 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand, to Percival Augustus Hillary and Gertrude Hillary, in Auckland, on 20 July 1919.
The family moved to Tuakau, a village about 40 miles (64.37 kilometres) south of Auckland in 1920.
Hillary’s father, a [...]