Friday, January 11, 2008

Everest hero Edmund Hillary dies



Sir Edmund Hillary, the first climber to scale the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, has died aged 88.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7182376.stm

He was the first man to climb the 8,850m (29,035ft) peak, with Tenzing Norgay, on 29 May 1953.

Returning to Everest's South Col camp, he famously greeted another member of the British expedition group with the words: "Well, George, we've knocked the bastard off."


read: High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Here is a poem in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary.

http://weeklylimerick.blogspot.com/2008/02/sir-edmundy-hillary-mind-hardily-rules.html

RDhingra