Hillary

[Ozz]

the world lost a great one today.....Edmund Hillary dies at 88 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22597658/)

[dvs cycles]

the world lost a great one today.....Edmund Hillary dies at 88 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22597658/)
Rat's ! Wrong Hillary. Had my hopes up for a minute. :rolleyes:

[72gmc]

Everything I ever read about the man emphasized his selflessness. He went about achievement and fame the right way.

[Ozz]

Rat's ! Wrong Hillary. Had my hopes up for a minute. :rolleyes:
would change title to prevent further misunderstandings....but can't.

sorry you were confused.

[jimcav]

Rat's ! Wrong Hillary. Had my hopes up for a minute. :rolleyes:

said like terrance and phillip in response to the "i hope you get cancer"

i'm no fan of hers, but even in jest, can't hope for ill to anyone. if i did, it would be for those whose incompetence has killed and maimed some folks we know, and driven too many i know to enter the private sector vice stay.

that said i don't know much about the man, only the everest conquest--since i watch the discovery channel show on the everest climbers regulary. would love to see them do it in the gear of his day.

jim

[Ozz]

...that said i don't know much about the man, only the everest conquest...

From bee keeper to world explorer (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0bio-1)

"...Hillary went on to organize further mountain-climbing expeditions but, as the years passed, he became more and more concerned with the welfare of the Nepalese people. In the 1960s, he returned to Nepal, to aid in the development of the society, building clinics, hospitals and 17 schools...."

[Chris]

Sad day. A true hero.

[Dave B]

Everything I ever read about the man emphasized his selflessness. He went about achievement and fame the right way.



Very true.


For those of us who have dreamt of Everest, he was it. Very humbled man, with great respect for the truth of nature.

I think even Everest herself is weeping over his loss.

[jimcav]

From bee keeper to world explorer (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0bio-1)

"...Hillary went on to organize further mountain-climbing expeditions but, as the years passed, he became more and more concerned with the welfare of the Nepalese people. In the 1960s, he returned to Nepal, to aid in the development of the society, building clinics, hospitals and 17 schools...."

may try to get his book next time i go out on a sub.
need more role models like that

jim

[MRB]

I watch a presentation he gave at the Mountain Film Festival in Banff several years ago. The topic was the big first ascent (with out Oxygen too) That would have been in about 1997. Sad day indeed, although he lived a full life. Like Abraham Lincoln said, "In the end it's the number of years in your life, but the amount of life in your years."

He has a technical 5.9 climb near the summit of Everest named the Hillary Step.

We also lost the second best climber, imho, Alex Lowe of Bozeman about 7 years ago too. Peter Habeler and Reinhold Meisner are my other favorite climbers, but I have never seen or met them.

[Kevan]

there was Everest.

Remarkable man. Leave it to a shepherd.

[gasman]

I am sad to hear this news. I have an autographed copy of his last book from when I lived in New Zealand. He was beloved in his home country and in Nepal. He was very unassuming but very driven and was able to live a simple life in Auckland for many years. he spent more time and energy helping the Nepalese people than few otheres have.
MRB-- Alex Lowe was an amazing climber-he was as good as it gets. Messner is an interesting man-got to met him 10 years ago-truly another pioneer.