Here we have a strange card for a set of sports records, surely this is more a feat of endurance than a sports record?
However this could mean it has slipped through the net for any collectors of mountain feats, so we are delighted to bring it to your attention.
And I do find it fun that Sir Edmund P. Hillary is described not as an explorer but as a New Zealand beekeeper. It does seem a curious thing to put down when they could have put intrepid explorer, or even mountaineer.
By the way, several footballers appear in this set, along with :
- Roger G. Bannister
- C. J. Chataway
- Emil Zatopec
- R. Johnson
- Reg Harris
- Billy Wright
- Stanley Matthews
- F. Swift / Frank V. Swift
- B. Trautmann / Bert Trautmann
- K.J. Jones / Ken Jones
- Donald Campbell
- John Cobb
- Geoff Duke
- Johnny Allen
- Peter Twiss / Mr. L. P. Twiss, D.S.C.
- Sir Donald Bradman
- Sir Len Hutton
- University Boat Race
- Sir Gordon Richards
- Pat Smythe
- Joe Louis
- Paul Anderson
- Anton Huiskies
- Tauno Luiro
- Everest Expedition / Sir Edmund Hillary