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Friday, January 11, 2008


More stuff on Sir Hillary, KBE. This time, his obit from the Telegraph.
Hillary remained determinedly low-key. "Having paid my respects to the highest mountain in the world," he recalled 46 years later in his autobiography View from the Summit (1999), "I had no choice but to urinate on it." Though he took Tenzing's photograph he did not bother to organise one of himself. And when he met Lowe at Camp VIII on the way down, he delivered the great news in a laconic fashion deemed too shocking for publication at that epoch: "Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
Sir Hillary, KBE, Original Badass. Read the whole thing, it's worth it. The Daily Telegraph got famous making obituaries readable and interesting, and not like something you read while you're killing time in the barber shop.

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