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...reached such a lofty height, he was a strange mix of confidence and modesty. A beekeeper from New Zealand, Sir Edmund Hillary was an aggressive amateur mountaineer drawn, he said, by the appeal of "grinding [competitors] into the ground on a big hill." Yet after accomplishing one of the 20th century's defining feats?his conquest, with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953?he channeled the attention and knighthood that followed toward aiding the Nepalese Sherpas, who had so often helped him. Raising funds through his Himalayan Trust, a project he continued until his death...
...Mount Everest was conquered, and the names of an Auckland bee farmer, Edmund Hillary, and his Sherpa climbing partner, Tenzing Norgay, joined those of Peary, Amundsen and Lindbergh atop the hill of 20th Century adventuring giants. With the death of Hillary at age 88, the all five are gone. LIFE Books editorial director Robert Sullivan first spoke with Sir Edmund - his friends call him Ed - in the living room of Hillary's home in Auckland in 1992. Sullivan enjoyed three subsequent conversations with Hillary, the most recent in February 2003. The following interview is based on those four talks...
...closet, but there are plenty of other fictional characters that are still hiding out. Perhaps they will soon follow his lead, and stand proud. 1. Iago from Disney’s “Aladdin” 2. Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad 3. Edmund from “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” 4. Old Yeller 5. Willy Wonka 6. Bert and Ernie 7. Sherlock Holmes 8. The Cowardly Lion 9. Timon and Pumbaa 10. Peter Pan 11. Buzz Lightyear 12. Captain Jack Sparrow 13. Bastian from “The Neverending...
...History professor Edmund Burke of the University of California at Santa Cruz emphasized the harm that outside voices could cause to tenure decisions...
...talk to a faculty member one on one.” Students at the panel reacted positively, praising the professors and expressing a desire to give office hours a try. “You can see how it actually might be when you talk to them,” Edmund V. G. Soriano ’11 said. He called the panel “encouraging” and said that he was now more inspired to attend office hours. Kelly explained it from an academic’s point of view. “We?...