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.

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[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.