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If Napoleon met Goethe with the words "Voila, un homme," what would he have said about Sir Edmund Hillary?(The Week)(Obituary)(Brief article)
If Napoleon met Goethe with the words "Voila, un homme," what would he have said about Sir Edmund Hillary? With a summit of six feet and five inches, the New Zealander looked like a mountain. Along with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa climbing partner, he won fame in 1953 for conquering the tallest of them: Mt. Everest, 29,035 feet high and seemingly made to kill. Many had died trying to climb it before him; many would die after. Add to the raw statistics the fact that climbing Himalayan peaks in '50s gear is approximately like performing heart surgery with kitchen utensils, ...
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