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Speaker 1: Now, it has been more than seventy years since Sir

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Speaker 1: ed summit at Everest, but it's the first time that

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Speaker 1: we've actually sent a foreign minister to Nepol. And of

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Speaker 1: course it's Winston Peters, Sir Ed's grandson. Alexander Hillary is

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Speaker 1: with us from Nepal.

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Speaker 2: Hey alex Hey, how you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: You guys got some celebrations going on at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, it's been absolutely incredible. We're up here high

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Speaker 2: on the Himalaya's sort of near Mount Everest. It's a

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Speaker 2: beautiful day. I'm looking out the window right now and

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Speaker 2: there's a monk, burning juniper and beautiful mountains. And we

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Speaker 2: had an incredible celebration yesterday.

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Speaker 1: What did you do? Did it involve whiskey?

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Speaker 2: It didn't involve whiskey, but there was a little taste

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Speaker 2: of chug, which is a rice bear. So when the

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Speaker 2: minister arrived, we actually had a welcome by the local

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Speaker 2: women's group and they did a Yagata pinche, which is

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Speaker 2: essentially a beautiful chant, and at the end of it

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Speaker 2: there's an offering of chang. So are they So the

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Speaker 2: minister and a few of us took a little sip

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Speaker 2: of that, which was very nice.

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Speaker 1: You're not making Winston climb at all, are you?

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Speaker 2: No, we're not, no clime. I'm involved, but you know,

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Speaker 2: being in the Himalayas altitude and sort of you know

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Speaker 2: the complications of that are a part of it. So

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Speaker 2: we were up at you know, not that far off

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Speaker 2: four thousand meters, so pretty high up in the Himalayas,

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Speaker 2: and we're in Kundi and Kongjong Village, which is a

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Speaker 2: really significant village for the Himalayan Trust. So it's where

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Speaker 2: all our works started. And we were just amazed and

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Speaker 2: really delighted that, you know, the Minister and the High Commissioner,

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Speaker 2: the Ambassador came all the way up to see the

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Speaker 2: projects that we've been working on there for about sixty years.

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Speaker 1: Listen, speaking of significance, how significant is it to have

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Speaker 1: a foreign minister come?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I think it's it's hugely significant. So New

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Speaker 2: Zealand and Nepal have had a pretty unique relationship for

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Speaker 2: you know, since the nineteen fifties, since nineteen fifty three,

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Speaker 2: and I think you know a lot of Kiwis feel

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Speaker 2: a great kinship for Nepal, and if you've been here

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Speaker 2: it's it's an incredibly sort of enticing place. It's just fantastic.

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Speaker 2: And I think, you know, to have that connection, to

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Speaker 2: have that acknowledgment of that special relationship with the Deputy

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs come as

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Speaker 2: incredibly special. And the fact that he came up I

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Speaker 2: guess to sort of the home of the Himalayan Trust

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Speaker 2: and Ed's relationship up here in Himalayas is very special.

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Speaker 2: The Himalayan Trust has worked with the New Zealand government

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Speaker 2: for decades. I don't exactly know when it began, but

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Speaker 2: it's quite possibly since the nineteen sixties and we've worked

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Speaker 2: together on projects education, healthcare and different things. So it's

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Speaker 2: a long standing partnership which is sort of now called

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Speaker 2: the New Zealand International Development Cooperation and I think you know,

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Speaker 2: Winston's acknowledgment of that partnership over many, many years is

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Speaker 2: really significant.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff. Hey, enjoy yourself and thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for chatting to us. It's Alexander Hillary, Sir Edmund

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