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...project he continued until his death, Hillary (far right, with Tenzing) helped install pipes and bridges and built 30 schools, two hospitals, 12 medical clinics and more. The arduous work didn't faze him. In 1996 he told TIME, "I would like to see myself not going [to Nepal] quite so often. But at the moment ... the responsibility is there. It has to be done...
...while you were doing the adventures, you became involved with Nepal, building the schools and so on. I had built up a very close friendship with the Sherpa people and it was obvious that they lacked so many of the things that we took for granted - there were no schools, and certainly no medical attention available. I liked the Sherpas and I admired them and I just thought, well, maybe there's something I can do. Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition. So once the Sherpas said that...
...became a diplomat as well as a school builder. I became the New Zealand Ambassador to India - High Commissioner, as we call it - and I was also High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Ambassador to Nepal. We had four and a-half years in Delhi [1985-89] and we really enjoyed it. June and I on many occasions were invited along to quite important functions in which we would be the only foreigners, and we loved that. I like India, it's a really interesting place. I think it's doing very much better. When I first went to India...
...then Louise and your daughter Belinda were killed in Nepal in '75 - an airplane accident - it was of course hard to recover from that? Well, of course it was tremendously difficult. It changed everything. My life disappeared, and I did drift for a time. I didn't really believe that time would heal the loss. But after five or six years I found I was getting interested in some new things. Time did heal things. But things have always remained different...
...minute 86.) "Help a complete stranger." (Guess who?) "Witness something truly majestic." (Reiner clearly wants audiences leaving his movie to believe that's what they've just done.) They go to France for a great meal, Africa for a safari, Egypt for the Pyramids, India for the Taj Mahal, Nepal to scale Mount Everest. Carter not only gets to drive that new car - a Mustang Shelby, prominently placed for maximum commercial impact - he gets to smash it up on a racetrack. If the Make-a-Wish Foundation had an outreach program for adolescent alterkockers, this would be the dream list...