| ||||
Edmund Hillary - The "burra sahib" - A Tribute
Submitted by sancochin on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 12:24pm.
"You never conquer a mountain; the most you can ever hope to do is to try and conquer yourself"
"Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself,"
"Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain."
"Well George, we finally knocked the bastard off." - Hillary's first words, to lifelong friend George Lowe, on returning from Everest's summit
Without fanfare and without compensation, he spent decades pouring energy and resources from his own fundraising efforts into Nepal through the Himalayan Trust he founded in 1962, building hospitals, health clinics, airfields and schools
Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, to win renown as one of the 20th century’s greatest adventurers, died on Friday. He was 88.
It is through the life of
Submitted by sancochin on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 10:09pm.
It is through the life of such great persons we extract energy to march ahead in the life
» login to post comments
motivation
those thoughts to conquer self relating to conquering mountain
gives us a hope to become another hillary in our lives...