Leaders, Heroes and Mountains

"For it is not high you climb or how many times you climb that really matters. What matters is what you do with the rest of your life after you have reached the summit and come back to earth. What you do as you walk up is your achievement. What you do when you come down is your legacy".
I loved your tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary. True! this is the way to achieve immortality. Sir Edmunf Hillary was unique, a king of conquerors, as he has not only achieved the highest physical summit on earth but also conquered the hearts of people; the highest peak where few leaders dare to dwell.
Thanks Shantanu for very informative and aspiring article
Nikhat Riaz

I think I saw it n National Geographic, how India went head over heels to prove that a native Indian Tenzing was first to reach but cheated. Hillary ended the controversy by finally conceding that both stepped togather on the summit. Its amazing why India did this. Some say cause at that point Nepal was considered part of India.

Very good tribute to a great climber. It was heartening to read what he did with his fame for the people of nepal!!

Now -- another Hillary is trying to climb another Mount Everest with yet another Tenzing.

Great tribute Shantanu,

But will Tenzing get a similar sendoff?

Ras

PS: nasah #4: I am with the other Hillary too, Clinton that
is!

#5 Tenzing died some years ago.
#2 Ijaz_gul, Nepal was not considered part of India at that time. It was many hundreds, if not a thousand years ago that Nepal was considered part of India, and at the time, India was not the India it is now-that India also included parts of Afghanistan.
Mr Dutta, you have a typo, but it is an important one, and one that can be easily fixed-Edmund, as you know, not Admund. And it is Sir Edmund, not Sir Hillary. By the way, Sir Edmund's first wife and their daughter died in the mid 70s in a plane crash in Nepal in the process of setting up a school there. He actually lost family as a result of his involvement with Nepal.

# nb:

Tenzing: Exactly my point.

Ref nb #6

[Mr Dutta, you have a typo,...Edmund, as you know, not Admund.]

He is a bong so it is Admund for him!

IslamIslam, Bongs are the last proper sahibs. Jokes apart, I'm one of them too, and I noticed the typo straight away. It's important to get the spelling of the decased right in a eulogy, I imagine?
Ras, point taken..but Tenzing died in India and we all heard about it then.