I think you're a few watts dimmer. And, you have no self-control.
You have no trouble accepting as accurate Hilary's quote from a newspaper.
And, you're illiterate as well as childish.
What else might Sir Edmund have meant by his comment? The reporter and maybe the editor only gave what they chose to report about what somebody else said they did or didn't do.
I'd ask whether or not you remember reading that, but you've already demonstrated a propensity for being a tenaciously boring dullard.
But you suspect the authenticity of quotes by the climbrs, WHO ACTUALLY WERE ON THE SCENE, because they are reported in a newspaper.
You must be the family joke. Can't read. Can't carry on a civil conversation. Takes himself entirely too seriously. And can't tell the difference between a newspaper report and eyewitness testimony.
But, you are entertaining, sort of.
Are you always this convoluted?
Anyway, regarding eye witnesses, we know one thing for sure- Hilary is NOT one. Yet you take his word.