January 11, 2008 Comment?

RIP, Hillary

Hillary is dead. Sir Edmund Hillary, that is, who conquered Mt Everest in 1953 with sherpa Tenzing Norgay. He’ll be remembered, for inspiring awe and derring-do, and being honest enough to admit: “Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”

Edmund Hillary, with the lowly pleasures that follow the lofty heights of Everest

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
(b) 20 July 1919, (d) 11 January 2008.
RIP.

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