About a week ago, when I was still in Washington D.C., I was walking around the city at around 8:30 at night, and on one of those electronic news banners came this:
"Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, died today at the age of 88"
This makes me think of the quote from Braveheart: "Every man dies, not every man really lives". On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, along with his sherpa and guide, Tenzing Norgay, became the first team of climbers to reach the summit of the 29,029 foot tall Mount Everest. These two amazing gentlemen paved the way for thousands of climbers in the decades after their first ascent. To this day, Mount Everest remains the highest point on earth. Here's to Sir Edmund Hillary and his inspiring accomplishment.
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