Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
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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