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Danger_dave
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 06:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The world seems less adventurous.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id =1&objectid=10482156
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Bjbauer
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 07:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I can't get the link to open. (probably overwhelmed with traffic) but I assume you are talking about New Zealand and the worlds loss of a true hero, Sir Edmund Hillary. First man to scale Everest, adventurer/humanitarian and humble as well. The planet needs more like him.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 07:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

For a long time Sir Edmund refused to say who reached the summit first, but in his book View From The Summit he eventually made it clear.

"I continued cutting a line of steps upwards," he wrote.
"Next moment I had moved on to a flattish exposed area of snow with nothing but space in every direction. Tenzing quickly joined me and we looked round in wonder. To our immense satisfaction we realised we had reached the top of the world."

The conquest of Everest brought Hillary, then 35, lasting fame which was swiftly recognised when he was knighted on June 6, 1953.

Sir Edmund was typically modest about the award.

"I could see myself walking down Broadway, Papakura, in my tattered overalls and the seat out of my pants, and I thought `That's gone forever. I'll have to buy a new pair of overalls now'."

Miss Clark said Sir Edmund's exploits would continue to inspire new generations of New Zealanders.

In recent years Sir Edmund's health had been failing but he made a final visit in January 2007 to Antarctica, the scene of another of his triumphs.

He was made a knight of the Order of the British Empire in 1953 and, 42 years later, the Queen bestowed on him her highest honour - a knighthood in the Order of the Garter.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 07:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

He famously said of the ascent, carried out with with sherpa Tenzing Norgay: "We knocked the bastard off."
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Bcordb3
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 08:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

May Sir Edmund rest in peace while looking above the mountain he conquered.

He and his sherpa led the way for all those who have reached the summit.
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Slaughter
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 08:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

My heart sank a bit on the news today...

Nothing is forever except just possibly the deeds, accomplishments and the memories of the man himself.

Anything I'd say or write would not be worthy.
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Nevrenuf
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 09:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I hope he rests in peace. and truly a sad day for new zealanders to lose a modern day hero.
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Wile_ecoyote
Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 09:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

A true adventurer and someone to admire. What a shame.
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Court
Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 07:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I watched the piece about him on the morning news, what a fascinating guy.

So much more than "just" an adventurer.

It's a great loss but he most certainly left the world better than he found it.

He was an amazing person.
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Slaughter
Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 09:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Hillary spent the rest of his life attempting to improve the lives and circumstances of the Nepalese. Contributing to schools, airports, infrastructure. He took up LEGITIMATE environmental causes when it was NOT fashionable to do so.

Contrast Hillary to the typical modern celebrity-athlete...
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