Quote of the day
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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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