Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Edmund Hillary
Born: July 20, 1919
Died: January 11, 2008 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Known for:
- High Adventure (1955)
- Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (1975)
- From the Ocean to the Sky (1979)
- The crossing of Antarctica (1958)
- Sir Edmund Hillary's Sagarmatha
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