**FILE PHOTO** Sardar Tensing Norkey (right) of Nepal and Edmund P. Hillary of New Zealand are shown here in the kit they wore when conquering Mount Everest, world's highest peak, on May 29, at the British Embassy in Khatmandu, capital of Nepal, June 26, 1953. (AP Photo)
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kathmandu in this April 15, 2007 file photo. Hillary, who along with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died, New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark said on January 11, 2008. REUTERS/Deepa Shrestha (NEPAL)
Rest In Peace, Sir Ed.
Farewell to a humble hero who used his notariety only for the good.
Gee, Hillary’s namesake. I wonder if she’s shed a tear over his death.
Interesting that your picture shows Norkey with an oxygen mask, but not Hillary. I read Norkey's book, Tiger of the Snows, when I was a kid. Fascinating book. Later, I learned Norkey's and Hillary's accounts differed in one important aspect: I distinctly remember Norkey writing that he assisted Hillary in ascending the final hundred meters or so... Hillary claimed just the opposite.
I must assume that somehow they took their own picture.
Sadden to hear of that other Hilary having passed on.
RIP Sir Edmund Hillary.
I regard him for his IGY trek to SPA. Even though he wasn’t there first, it had been nearly half a century since Amundsen (and Scott).
He has been to the highest point on earth, now he is even higher. Heaven awaits Sir Ed.