Sir Edmund Hillary Died of Heart Failure at the Auckland City Hospital at the age of 88.
Hillary is most famous for being the first european, with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to reach the top of Mount Everest and return alive (and possibly the first to reach the summit).
Today, there are streams of climbers going up and down the slopes of this mountain, which is much easier to climb because of modern technology and having the routes already figured out. Nonetheless, a large percentage of these mountaineering yuppies do not survive the trek.
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He died on this date. I was born on this date! Here is hoping I can accomplish even half of what he did before it's my turn to check out!
Dave Briggs :~)
Damn, but it's going to be confusing keeping the "Hillary"'s straight for the next week or so ;-).