Edmund Hillary was the first man, along with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Edmund was one of the most impactful people to ever live. He was exceedingly humble, and always put others before him. He accomplished many expeditions, and was a very inspiring, thoughtful and recognized person.
Edmund Hillary was born to Gertrude and Percival Hillary on July 20th of 1919 in Auckland New Zealand. As a boy, he was shy and tended to be buried in books, so he thought of himself as a small and fairly lonely child. Edmund went to primary school in Tuakau, the village where he and his family lived. His mother wanted him to go to a city school, so he later attended secondary school at Auckland grammar school (Biography.com). By his
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teens, Hillary had grown to a height of 6’5”. When he was on a school trip at age 16, he discovered his admiration of snow and climbing after ascending Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro national park. Edmund went on to study math and science at the University of Auckland. Eventually, he joined the Royal New Zealand air force during World War II, but he was in a boat accident and was severely burned (Ibid). While at the air force Hillary climbed his first tall mountain called Mount Tapuaenuku that reached 9465ft. Edmund spent the last part of the war working as a navigator. When he was flying by the islands of the South Pacific, his plane crashed in the ocean, and he was seriously injured (U.S History in context). Edmund Hillary went on many well-known expeditions, and had an extremely productive career. At the age of 29, he accomplished his first well-known trip when he climbed Mount Oliver located in the New Zealand Southern Alps (Biography.com). After the air force, Hillary joined the Auckland section of the New Zealand Alpine cup, where he took part in the first ascent of the southern ridge on Mount Cook. He spent as much time preparing for Everest as he possibly could. To help ready himself, he practiced rock climbing and ice pick work, and he also decided to join the wrestling team (Sir Edmund Hillary project of the rotary club of Mount Victoria). In the warm season of January 1948, Edmund also scaled Mount Everest, which gave him the credentials to go on the Everest Expedition (Biography.com). Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay joined the 9th British Everest expedition in 1953. The team led by John Hunt carved a route through the Khumbu Glacier with ice falling all around (Ibid). On May 26th two of the members reached 28,700 ft., but due to exhaustion, they had to retreat. On May 28th five of the team including Hillary and Tenzing made it to 27,900ft. That evening Hillary and Tenzing slept in a tent. They went to bed at 6 pm, awoke at 3:30 am, and left camp at 6:30 am on May 29th. When Tenzing and Hillary reached the 40ft “Chimney” at the end, they climbed it and made history (U.S History in context). At the top, Edmund buried a crucifix, and Norgay dug a hole and filled it with sweets (Biography.com). After being the first man to summit Everest, Hillary said one of his famous quotes that has inspired many climbers, “It’s not the mountain we conqueror but ourselves” (American Academy of Achievement). Hillary also went on many career shaping expeditions other than Everest.
Besides the well-known ascend of Mount Everest, he climbed 11 peaks over 20,000 ft. in the New Zealand Mountains, Alps, and the Himalayas (American Academy of Achievement). In 1954 Edmund led a New Zealand expedition to the Himalayas. When one of his men fell into a crevasse, being the heroic man he was, Hillary broke three ribs to save him (U.S History in context). Vivian Fuchs asked him to take part in the trans-Antarctic expedition in 1957-1958. His job was to set up supply dumps from Scott base to the South Pole. Hillary asked to use snow-cats to haul the supplies, but he had to use Ferguson farm tractors instead. After he made his last dump, he decided to keep going, and headed for the South Pole. On January 4, 1958 Hillary reached the South Pole with his three tractors. He was the first person to make it to the pole by land in 46 years (Biography in context). In 1968 he traveled the Nepal Rivers on a jet boat, and in 1977 he did the same up the Ganges to the Himalayas. In 1985 Hillary and the astronaut Neil Armstrong flew a small twin-engine plane to the North Pole. This made Edmund Hillary the first person to stand at both poles and the summit of Everest, or to complete “Third Pole” (Ibid). Throughout his Mountain climbing career, Edmund was always so motivated to succeed, and was never short of inspiring the people around …show more content…
him. Even off the mountain, Edmund Hillary was a very impactful man as well.
Right after Everest, Hillary and Sir John Hunt published the book “the ascent of Everest (American Academy of Achievement). He also published a book based on his 1977 Ganges River expedition called “From the Ocean to the Sky”. Edmund was also extremely dedicated to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal, so he founded the Himalayan Trust. He built schools, hospitals, and transportation hubs in Nepal (Biography.com). He ended up building 30 schools, two hospitals, and 12 medical clinics in Nepal’s Khumbu region (Sir Edmund Hillary project of the rotary club of Mount Victoria). During the Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1955-1958, Nepalese people were cutting down trees in their forest to provide fuel for the Mountaineers. Hillary was concerned about the Himalayan environment and was able to get the Nepalese government to pass laws to protect the forest. The law declared the area around Everest a national park, but the Nepalese couldn’t afford it, so Edmund persuaded the New Zealand government to help fund it (American Academy of Achievement). Edmund was always doing his best to make sure everyone was happy with the situation, and he never hesitated to put others needs before
his. Although Edmund spent a lot of his time climbing and helping others, he did have a family. Before Everest, he and his brother Rex became beekeepers like their father before them (Biography.com). On September 3rd of 1953, he married Louise Mary Rose. Edmund and Louise had three children, Peter, Sarah, and Belinda. In 1975 Louise and Belinda were killed in a plane crash while Hillary was in Nepal. In 1989 he remarried June Mulgrew. Edmund inspired his son Peter and Tenzing’s son Jamling to become mountaineers. Peter summited Everest in 1990, along with both of them summiting in May of 2002 (Wikipedia). Throughout their lives, Edmund and Tenzing inspired many other people besides their sons. Edmund Hillary was a well-recognized and awarded man. On June 2, 1953, at Queen Elizabeth II coronation, Edmund was knighted. He was awarded the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu 1st class of the kingdom of Nepal in 1953. He was also awarded the coronation medal in 1975, the polar medal in 1958, and has been on the New Zealand 5 dollar bill since 1992. Hillary also had two Antarctic features named after him, The Hillary Coast, and the Hillary Canyon (Wikipedia). On April 22nd, 1995 he was appointed knight companion at the order of the garter. On June 17, 2004, he was also awarded the Commanders cross of the order of merit in the Republic of Poland (Ibid). He was also cited as New Zealand’s most trusted individual and was recognized as the honorary citizen of Nepal in 2003 on the 50th anniversary of reaching the summit (Biography.com). Along with all of his greatest accomplishments and recognition, Edmund Hillary was very involved. He was the president of the volunteer service for many places, and a patron of an outdoor pursuit Centre along with the Race Relations Council. He was also involved in the Family Planning Association, and he was the honorary president of the New Zealand explorer’s club (Biography in context). Even through all of his recognition and fame, Hillary stayed humble, and never put himself on a pedestal. On April 22 2007, while on a trip to Kathmandu, he suffered a fall and was brought to the hospital. Later on January 11 of 2008, the world lost a wonderful man. Edmund Hillary died of heart failure at age 88 in Auckland city hospital. Flags were lowered to half-mast at New Zealand public buildings, and at Scott base in Antarctica (Wikipedia). Edmund Hillary was one of the most accomplished, and impactful people to ever walk this earth. He inspired many mountaineers with his well-known expeditions, and gave them something to inspire them. Edmund always put others needs before his. He broke his ribs to save a fellow climber, as well as building schools and hospitals for the Nepalese. He was also very humble about his fame. One of his famous quotes to support that he was humble states "I was just an enthusiastic mountaineer of modest abilities who was willing to work quite hard and had the necessary imagination and determination. I was just an average bloke; it was the media that transformed me into a heroic figure. And try as I did, there was no way to destroy my heroic image. But as I learned through the years, as long as you didn’t believe all that rubbish about yourself, you wouldn’t come to much harm.” (Sir Edmund Hillary project of the rotary club of Mount Victoria) Hillary never boasted about his accomplishments, and always put others before himself. He was exceptionally successful and was one of the most impactful people to ever live.
Chapter 7: In chapter 7 Krakauer talks about how Everest has changed from a professionals trek to anyone's trek. He explains that many inexperienced people have climbed Mount Everest with the help of sherpas and guides. He also mentions about the determination of Everest and how in some instances in history people who weren't allowed into Tibet or Nepal but they snuck in and managed to climb and summit Everest
The Entrepreneurs I've gotten was the Jodrey Family. I will first talk about Roy A. Jodrey who was the one that started it then lead to his son John J.Jodrey.
Josh, Peak’s father, was the most selfish of all. Peak and Josh never had much of a connection. Josh had always been focused on his business, Peak Experience, until he had a window of opportunity. Peak’s arrest was the perfect time for him to promote his company. Josh’s plan was to have Peak summit Everest and break the world record as the youngest person to ever reach the peak of Mount Everest.
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Ever since people knew it was possible to reach the summits of Mount Everest about 4,000 people have attempted to climb it and a one in four ratio of people have died from doing so. “Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed” (Krakauer 13). The very first person to reach the summits of Mount Everest was in 1953 also ever since then about seven percent out of every 4,000
It details the author's presence at Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, when eight climbers were killed and a few others were left alone (and helpless) by a "sneaky and dishonest (or boldly independent) storm". The author's big, important trip was led by the famous guide Rob Hall, and there were other groups trying to summit on the same day, including one led by Scott Fischer, whose guiding (service business/government unit/power/functioning), Mountain Madness, was seen as a competitor to Rob Hall's (service business/government unit/power/functioning), Fun trip Consultants. Jon Krakauer described the events leading up to his (happening sometime in the future) decision to participate in an Everest big, important trip in May 1996, even though there is the existence of having mostly given up mountain climbing years before. The 1996 season big, important trip recorded 8 deaths, the third most on Everest in a single day (the April 2015 Nepal earthquake caused the most, at least 19 deaths), including Krakauer's guide Andy Harris.
Peter Salem : a slave who was freed by his owner, Jeremiah Belknap, to join the Framingham militia in Massachusetts. He was a patriot for over seven years, supporting the Americans fight the British, and became a militia himself and served for four years and eight months. In 1775, Peter took part in fighting the war’s first battle at Concord. He enrolled in Captain Drury’s Company of John Nixon’s 6th Massachusetts Regiment. He also took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he mortally wounded British Marine Major, John Pitcairn. Then in 1776, he reenlisted for another year in the 4th Continental Regiment. After his enlistment was over, he volunteer for three years in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment of Colonel Thomas Nixon. Achievement : Contribute to Concord battle(1775), Battle of the Bunker Hill(1775), and the Battles of Saratoga and Stony Point(1777).
My last trip to the summit was a journey filled with danger and hardships. The group of people that I was to lead up Everest included Doug Hansen, Sandy Pittman, Jon Krakauer, and Beck Weathers. Doug Hansen had attempted the summit on a guided expedition by me a year earlier, but we had to turn back. All and all the beginning of this trip was similar to many of my other commercial expeditions. We started at Kathmandu and worked our way to Phakding, where I picked up my crew of Sherpas. The Sherpas are very important to our expedition, so I told the team to appreciate their hard work. We then continued to climb until we stopped at Lobuje. This overcrowded village was disgusting and caused many of my clients to become ill....
Climbing makes for a difficult expedition, you need to give up the wrappers when you was ascending. You need to give up the heavy things, you need to give up your wrappers, and you need to give yourselves. Sometimes we need to give up our lives to climb the mount Everest. According to snow storm, the energy, the oxygen and the people who desired prove themselves the spring’s 96s expedition to mountain Everest was destined to be the most tragic.
Climbing Mount Everest is a horrific and thrilling experience that 290 people have died attempting to complete. In the novel “Into Thin Air” written by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer goes through his own journey of climbing Mount Everest and how commercialized the climbing of Everest had really become. In his journey he explains how climbers have paid as much as $65,000 to join a guided group that would lead them to the summit. The author bluntly states that some of the novices were not qualified to climb Mount Everest. With this amateurity it only made the journey twice as much difficult and dangerous. Unfortunately, a terrible blizzard struck Mount Everest within minutes of them reaching the top. For all of the climbers on the mountain, the blizzard turned what was to be a successful climb for all concerned into a nightmare. Because of poor planning, several of the climbers found themselves in a desperate situation that they had no
Krakauer describes Hall as being a thirty-five-year-old man standing at "six foot three or four and skinny as a pole" (31). His approach to climbing and guiding was meticulous and demanding. He paid close attention to details and had an intense desire to succeed. Hall made many successful climbs prior to his attempt at Everest. In 1990, after three separate attempts over a span of ten years, Hall finally made the summit of Everest. Hall’s flair for publicity had allowed him the success of his prior climbs, but he decided that the guiding business was preferable to constantly pursuing sponsorships. After creating Adventure Consultants, his mountain climbing enterprise, Hall became very successful at getting his clients to the top of Mount Everest. By 1996, he was charging sixty-five thousand dollars per person. This fee was the highest of all the companies on Mt. Everest.
At the Olympic Games at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912, Jim Thorpe performed the dazzling accomplishment of winning both the five-event pentathlon and ten-event-decathlon, an achievement that had never ever been performed by an athlete. King Gustav of Sweden presented the winners their gold medals. When it was Thorpe’s turn, he draped the medal about his shoulders and said, “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.
Bill Clinton known as William Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. His mother's name was Virginia Cassidy and his father was William Jefferson Blythe. Bill Clinton never got to meet his biological father due to the fact that he died in an accident three months before he was born. Bill Clinton was taught to read at a very early age by his grandma, Edith Cassidy who practically raised him. In 1950 Bill Clinton’s mom married Roger Clinton who was a car dealer and an abusive alcoholic, when Bill Clinton was fifteen; his mother divorce Roger Clinton then remarried him again. Has a young boy he was very religious to the point where he went to church on a regular basis and when he became an adult he was a member of a Baptist church. He became infatuated with politics when he was a teenager; he won student elections in high school as well as at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. where he graduated from and later on won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. When he graduated from Yale Law School Bill Clinton taught law at the University of Arkansas for a short amount of time.
Given the recent Everest tragedy over the weekend with the biggest loss of lives to date, this case study rings particularly poignant. It’s hard to think of a higher-staked situation than making a summit bid for Mount Everest. The responsibility in such a trek weighs heavy on the leader, but does not need to fall on his shoulders alone. Had Fischer been more willing to share credit, fostering a team-oriented environment, he might still be around today to bask in the glory of his ambitious undertaking.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October 26 1947 in the city of Chicago Illinois Hillary Rodham was the eldest daughter of Hugh Rodham, a prosperous fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham; she has