He died today at the age of 88 and for most people around the world will be remembered as the first man to reach the top of Mount Everest. After scaling the peak, he later told a fellow explorer at base camp: “Well George, we knocked the bastard off.”.
He was also the first man to climb that mountain and reach the South and North Poles.
He formed a life long bond with the people of Nepal and in that country will be remembered for the charity that he established in 1964. It has built more than 30 schools, set up clinics and hospitals, built bridges and airstrips all in a quest to improve the life or Nepalese people.
By all accounts he was a a quiet unassuming man and in a time when the word hero is applied all too casually this individual is one of the few to whom the term can be genuinely applied.
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3 comments:
Well said.
He definitely left things in better condition than how he found them. :)
Thanks rt, I read that he is going to get a state funeral in New Zealand.
What an intrepid human being, and quite the decent man as well. Bless him.
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