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...climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40 really. When you're younger you're probably faster, but when you're older you have incredible endurance, and you also have a good deal more experience - you've had more experience of being uncomfortable and miserable, whereas the younger person who is all go, go really hasn't been all that miserable in his life. When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can be pretty miserable business, and I think the older person is able to put up with this more easily than younger people...
...Tenzing become a team in '53? The person I really enjoyed climbing with most was George Lowe, and I still believe that if George and I had been in the final summit push, we would have made it because we were a very strong combination. But John decided George and I were both useful as snow and ice climbers, and he split us up and used us with different groups. So I realized I simply wasn't going to be able to climb with George. I looked around and decided that the best and fastest mover around the place, apart...
...didn't know anything about wind chill factor in those days, but the wind chill factor must have been very considerable. And I really felt that night, with the wind blowing as it was, that we might have trouble with the summit. I have never been the sort of person who is absolutely confident that he is going to reach the summit of any mountain. I was always very much aware of the fact that weather conditions or snow conditions could make getting to the summit difficult or even impossible. But early in the morning the wind had eased...
...researchers showed 100 study participants black-and-white headshots of 50 Fortune 1,000 CEOs - a fairly homogeneous-looking group almost entirely made up of middle-aged white men - then asked the volunteers to rate the executives on personality traits, and how well they thought the person would lead a company. The study controlled for the CEOs' age, emotional expression and attractiveness (it's well-known that people tend to assign positive traits to the good-looking), and threw out data from participants who recognized any of the executives...
...profit, not profit margin, but controlled for firm size.) On the other hand, executives who were rated highly on measures of warmth, such as likeability and trustworthiness, didn?t necessarily match up with successful companies. Boards of directors take note: "There's no relationship between how trustworthy a person seems and how well the company does," says Nicholas Rule, a doctoral candidate and one of the study's co-authors. "Warmth isn't correlated with success. Power...