Sir Edmund Hillary, final summit.

[gurdymonkey]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080111/ap_on_re_au_an/obit_edmund_hillary

I don't know why this makes me sad, but it does.

Comments

[aureellia.livejournal.com]

wtf? I thought he was dead until tonight. I feel like I missed meeting someone grand. It makes me sad too. Thank you for posting it.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I remember seeing interviews with him and he seemed like a genuinely nice person with his head screwed on straight.

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Maybe because he was an extraordinary person who honestly made the world a better place? Not because he climbed a mountain, but because he then used that celebrity to improve the lot of others, especially in the country of Nepal.

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

I just read the news story about his death. He seems to have been a truly decent man. We all should be sad when a decent person is lost.
I was really touched by him wanting his ashes scattered on the bay "to wash up on the shores where I lived my life". For some reason that bit really got to me.