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Klimt_Of_Tornesdal 
Registered: Dec '99
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Date Posted: 1/10 9:36pm Subject: Sir Ed Hilary passes away
For those who may not have heard, Sir Edmund Hilary, the New Zealander who was the first to successfully climb Mt. Everest, passed away at 0900 NZ Time this morning at the age of 88.

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Mr44 
Registered: May '02
Date Posted: 1/10 10:24pm Subject: RE: Sir Ed Hilary passes away
He certainly lead an amazing life.

Are you a climber, KOT?

 

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Klimt_Of_Tornesdal 
Registered: Dec '99
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Date Posted: 1/11 1:23am Subject: RE: Sir Ed Hilary passes away
Nah, I get enough exercise pushing my luck. tongue I'm a kiwi lad myself. Even went to a school for a couple of years that had been named after him.

 

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malkieD2 
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 Registered: Jun '02
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Date Posted: 1/11 2:35am Subject: RE: Sir Ed Hilary passes away
First person to climb Everest and make a big fuss of it.

 

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Obi Wan Bergkamp 
Registered: Oct '98
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Date Posted: 1/15 2:52am Subject: RE: Sir Ed Hilary passes away
It's amazing how many people think he was actually British.

 

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yankee8255 
Registered: May '05
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Date Posted: 1/15 5:00am Subject: RE: Sir Ed Hilary passes away
To be blunt, Malkie, from the few things I read about him, he doesn't seem the type to make a fuss about himself. I'd say it was others who made the fuss.

To the extent you're implying others made it there first, well, Mallory may have, though there's no way of proving whether he did or not, and dying before you get down to tell everyone what you did is sort of an auto-loss. It's very doubtful (though not impossible, as Messner showed) anyone made up before then without supplemental oxygen.

Regardless, he deserves our admiration for the work he did in Nepal afterwards, establishing schools, hospitals, etc for the sherpas.

 

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