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Posted On: January 12th 2008
Posted By: Adam Coozer
Source: AM NY |
Edmund Hillary Stood for Adventure
The first time a climber lays eyes on Everest, it's hard not to imagine what it was like when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay topped out on the world's highest peak shortly before noon on May 29, 1953.
For almost everyone who studied the pictures of his epic first ascent with Tenzing, Hillary stood for adventure. The collective sense of triumph that seized the world with their success was etched into Hillary's famous photograph of Tenzing on Everest's summit. I stared at it as a child and dreamed.
That Hillary would become a national hero -- without revealing until years after Tenzing's death that it was Hillary who stepped first onto the summit -- said a lot about him. For them both, it was about the adventure, and the brotherhood of the rope.
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