Blog: johnloguk

THE LOSS OF A GREAT MAN

Like many people, especially mountaineers, I was saddened yesterday to hear about the death of Sir Edmund "Ed" Hillary.

Most simply remember him as the first man to climb Mount Everest, but there was far more to him than that. Indeed, he would probably have said himself that climbing Everest was more about being in the right place at the right time. Other climbers got close to the summit before Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay finally made it, but few remember them.

Rather than try to write yet another epitaph to the great man I'll just give you this link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_on_re_au_an/obit_edmund_hillary

I hope that everyone who reads this finds out something new about the big New Zealander, and gets a better appreciation of why he was a truly great man. Enough said, he "knocked the bastard off"!

by johnloguk on 11:41 on 12th January 2008