Here is a guy that really lived his life to the fullest. It was luck that put him on top of Everest. If a few things had gone differently other men on his expedition would be famous. But he and Tenzing Norgay were the first. Tenzing had already nearly summited on another attempt.
People who do not climb mountains do not understand why other do. There are lots of reasons, but I think the main reason is that we just like to explore. The inner kid lives in the great explorer. Hillary also was on the first team to reach the south Pole since Amundsen in 1911. He also took off with Neil Armstrong in a ski-plane and landed on the North Pole making him the first human to stand on Everest and the two poles.
"He devoted all of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan trust, which he founded and to which he had given much of his time and energy. Through his efforts he had succeeded in building many schools and hospitals in this remote region of the Himalayas. He was the Honorary President of the American Himalayan Foundation, a United States non-profit body that helps improve the ecology and living conditions in the Himalayas."
And he seems not to have been a jerk. He had a life lived to the fullest. A true human being.
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