Sir Edmund Hillary dies aged 88

[julesjones]

The trouble with getting older is seeing too many of my childhood heroes shuffle off this mortal coil. Goodbye, Sir Edmund, and may there be challenges worthy of you past that final frontier.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7182376.stm

Comments

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

The weird thing for me is that even though it was not that terribly long ago I always had a sense when I was a boy that he was one of those lofty far off explorers of the 19th century. I remember being surprised the first time I heard a interview with him when I was 10 or 12.