New Zealand mountaineer
1st to reach top of Mount Everest, highest peak in the
world, with his Nepalese sherpa guide Tenzig
Norgay--1953
beekeeper by vocation
wife and daughter killed in plane crash in
Himalayas--1975
ambassador to India in 1980's
developed many conservation projects and charities
in Nepal.
1st to reach top of Mount Everest, highest peak in the
world, with his Nepalese sherpa guide Tenzig
Norgay--1953
beekeeper by vocation
wife and daughter killed in plane crash in
Himalayas--1975
ambassador to India in 1980's
developed many conservation projects and charities
in Nepal.
Hillary, Edmund
1919-2008 88 years
1919-2008 88 years
| Somebody asked Edmund Hillary, who conquered Everest – the highest peak, the only peak which was unconquered – somebody asked, “Why? Why do you take such trouble? What is the need? And even if you reach to the peak, what you will do? You will have to come back.” Hillary said, “It is a challenge to the human ego. An unconquered peak has to be conquered!” It had no other utility. What will you do? What has he done? He went there, placed a flag and came back. What nonsense! And many people died in this effort. Many groups had been trying for almost a hundred years. Many died, were lost, fell into the abyss – never came back. But the more it became difficult to reach, the more the appeal... --Osho Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol. 1, ch. 2 |
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