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Edmund Hillary and Helen Clark walk into
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a bar do you want to tell the story yeah
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they did and I'm cringing now talking to
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you about it and we went down with Ed
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Hillary the 50th anniversary of Scott
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base it's political editors like 35 this
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was my career like just coming you know
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taking off really me and the tvnz
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cameraman hop off the the start after
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first to get the shots of Ed coming back
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to the ice you know his eyebrows at sort
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of three feet thick you know he's he's a
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legend and he's amazing his eyes light
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up when he sees the ice it's great hit
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the bar
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um on the last night at uh Scott base
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really hard my last steps were like um
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in this common living area where it had
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an utter skin fill and I was still
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holding a glass of sort of red wine when
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I came it out and the next morning in
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walks Helen Clark Ed Hillary Jerry
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matapurai you know the good and great
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New Zealand chief of Defense Force
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allegian the prime minister to see this
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guy comb it out
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um you know absolutely wreaking of
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alcohol you know and I can laugh about
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it now but I didn't go
