RIP Sir Edmund Hillary

[CrazedSkier1080]

As a climber, skier, and mountaineer I hope everyone can take a second and think of what this guy actually accomplished.

RIP... you'll never be forgotten
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22597658/

 

[jimmychung]

sounded like a really modest guy to because a beekeeper in NZ after what he accomplished. RIP.

 

[BravoWhiskey5280]

RIP to the New Zelander.....

 

[brokebutitsworthit]

RIP I always respected him for his adventures and this attitude, even though his sherpa was most likely the first guy up.

 

[Tolz]

that dude was dope

 

[toominator]

more like a team effort, neither could climb it by themselves. another summit team from their party had attempted before but had to pull out.

hes had a pretty good innings like 87 or something been down in antartica recently, nepal earlier last year. what a good guy

 

[BravoWhiskey5280]

has anyone on NS climbed everest before?

 

[Schoening]

this probably sounds like a huge claim....

my dad climbed it in 1996.

 

[SirFryanator]

RIP to one of the people I respect the most. Truly a legend in human history.

 

[Alex_G]

I actually just really started to respect him since I watched Everest: Beyond the Limit.

 

[Holte]

RIP to one of my lifelong heroes.

 

[skipimp_]

He was no Ernest Shackleton.

 

[skisebski]

thats sucks big time. RIP edmund.

 

[freestyler540]

we lost one of the greatest

 

[SirFryanator]

Ernest Shackleton was a beast and a man that I aspire to be like in the fact that he had impeccable leadership qualities...but Sir Edmund Hillary slayed terrain that nobody had ever seen before that was possibly as dangerous as the Antarctic. He accomplished it, too.

I respect both equally, but seeing as that I would never want to cross the arctic but I would love to climb Mt. Everest, I can relate to Sir Edmund Hillary a little more.

 

[skiminnesota]

RIP

 

[Whitlock]

Ive always wanted to climb Everest. RIP

 

[BobTreeBark]

wasnt 96 the year that all that crazy shit went down

 

[skipimp_]

Yeah, S.E.H, was a badass too.

E.S is my personal hero.....

its amazing how his men believed in him so strongly

 

[triebby]

he was and always will be the man. bet he's livin it up with doug coombs right now.

 

[Hannah.]

completely agree

 

[almostaskier]

He did so much to help Nepal out, building airstrips, hospitals, schools. A legend.

 

[skisebski]

this is so true!

 

[jayamait]

rip bro

 

[brokebutitsworthit]

He stated that getting an honourary Nepalese citizenship was one of the high points of his life, he loved the country and really made a difference there.