Edmund Hillary

[jitterjepp]

Edmund Hillary died today in New Zealand and the age of 88.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapc....ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/edmund.hillary.ap/index.html)

[mara]

That's really sad.

"It is not the mountain we conquor, but ourselves."

[Paul Swenson]

I was just thinking about him the other day. The Discovery Channel had a show about people climbing Everest and I realized how amazing his feat was. He had no ladders, no ropes set up, no Shirpas that had been up there a bunch of times.

His climb was truly amazing.

[ryno lite]

Yep, he was the man. Impressive to look at his life and how much good he did. Truly a good person.

[incendiarySYS]

...no Shirpas that had been up there a bunch of times.

Besides his sherpa climbing partner who lived on the mountian and until their summit together held the record for highest point reached.

[AndrewMay]

A true bad a$$. He reached the summit of Everest, turned to his sherpa Tenzing and said, "Well, we knocked the Bastard off."
He was a humble and modest person and will be sorely missed by the whole climbing community.