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SULLIVAN: Tell us about your youth. HILLARY: I was born here in Auckland, but the first 15 years of my life we lived 40 miles south in a small village called Taukau and I went to primary school there. My mother was a school teacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impovrished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. I found the city rather trying. I was definitely very much a country boy. I was a really weedy 11-year-old, then I grew five inches one year...
...along the way there was tragedy. Tell us about Louise Rose. I married Louise shortly after the Everest expedition. Louise was a good deal younger than I was, but she was a keen mountaineer. She was very much involved in the out-of-doors, and was lots of fun. We did a lot of family treks, we really enjoyed them. They weren't really extreme, they were more camping trips, but pretty energetic trekking. We were very keen that the kids should learn to enjoy the out-of-doors, enjoy swimming and camping and walking around the hills...
...life. I got married in Bermuda, one of the most beautiful places on the planet to get married, to an absolutely incredible person who really has been my real support mechanism. I've been able to learn a lot through diet and exercise, but I've got to tell you, it's having true love in your life and somebody who has your back 24 hours a day that makes the difference...
...students to explore new ideas, to talk to the people who know what the options are, to consult with the experts who can tell them that concentration choice has little if anything to do with future career opportunities and realities...
...Designing and supporting advising programs in a place where faculty, administrators, and students constantly tell us how busy they are is a challenge. What we promote (and desire fervently) is that students and advisers spend time together to build effective, substantive relationships. Advising does not arise from brief encounters. It comes from honest, even probing conversations, which require some trust and commitment on the part of both people who are together constructing an advising relationship...