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Sir Edmund Hillary died January 11th of this year.
He was that crazy New Zealander who on
It was not yet a well beaten path with broken-in way stations and rumors of a MacDonalds (someone told me that but I don’t believe it.). No high-tech gear, no mountain weather updates, no GPS satellite equipment, no advanced oxygen system, no personal porters to carry their supplies. (Hillary hauled 30 pounds on his back.)
The bee-keeper-become-mountaineer went places no foot of man had been before. He broke in a new path through the treacherous Khumbu Icefall. The trickiest part of the last bit was a 40-foot rock face, where he saw a way to utilize a crack between ice and a rock wall. The place was subsequently named “Hillary’s Step.”
You think it’s hard climbing Everest now? Sure it is. But try being the first.
You think it stinks that you and I have to suffer? Sure it does. But like all the Hillary-imitators today, we have a pioneer. “It was fitting for him,…in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings” (Hebrews
All we have to do, like migrating geese, is stay in His slipstream.
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I liked the fact that Hillary was humble enough to do the joking commercial for American Express (”Do you know me?”) He also ALWAYS gave Tensing Norgay credit for his vital contribution to the effort. Hillary funded schools hospitals etc to improve the lives of the poor Sherpas. Anyone ever here him speak anything which would have revealed him to know Christ?
Everything you say is even more true of Mallory before him.
Mallory did not succeed, but Mallory did blaze the way and provide some of the way stations which Hillary would use in his successful ascent.
And then at the peak of his career on Everest, Mallory then fell to his death on the North Ridge.
“captain of their salvation”. That’s really cool. I’d forgotten about that verse.
Who’s the guy in th picture? That’s not Hillary is it? I think he’s taller.
Hillary and Norgay always kept it a closely gaurded secret who actually reached the top first. They wanted to emphasize that it was a team effort.
And Mallory was doing it without oxygen. That’s even more amazing.
Hillary lived when men were men. It was actually easier for him to do it. It is much harder for the much physically and mentally larger woosies of today, tempted with texting, transgendering climbing partners, fast food, green tea, drugs of all kinds, (and who knows what else) to climb Mt Everest. Plus, it is a few more inches higher than it was in the old days too.
Hillary wouldn’t stand a chance to climb it today. He’d be lucky to get to Paris at the Hilton’s at base camp today
llama post 5,
what interesting comments in the face of the exploits of say Viesturs who has climbed Everest repeatedly without oxygen and using a wide variety of different climbing styles on widely different difficulties of routes.
As an example: Hillary climbed Everest in expedition style with mutiple camps put in by armies of porters. Climbers today are doing it Alpine style in a single “push” carrying all the gear for the climb on their backs.
I suugest as better observation is that each generation faces new challenges and there is every indication that each generaton has individuals who perform heroically in the context of their times.
And Hilary Clinton said she was named after him - thus proving her parents were prophets of a kind (since he was not famous for anything until well after she was orn and named).
As for comparisons of Sir Edmund with Mallory, do recall that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did except backwards and in high heels.
Odd analogy - Jesus was hardly the _first_ to suffer!
I actually served Sir Edmund Hillary a meal once when I worked at a restaurant. He was pleasant, but totally focused on the children who were with him. I guessed that they were probably his grandchildren.
He was known in the community as an all round nice guy. However, I never heard him mention Jesus. He promoted the tribal paganism of the Nepal region as having great merit, but he didn’t seem to believe in ang himself.
As a former mountain climber myself (much smaller than Everest!), Sir Edmund was a hero of mine. However, his passing leaves me concerned for where he is now. If we don’t follow the Lord Jesus, then we will at the end find that we have taken the wrong path.
P.S. It is Hillary in the picture, not the standing man, but the one in the hat, and yes, he was tall.
Post number 10 should read “in anything himself”. Sorry, if I use the preview button then I often lose the whole post altogether.