I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1985 in the high arctic of Canada. He and his son, Steve (I believe), were heading way up north near Alert in Canada to trek. It was a real honour.
__________________
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius
Makes you realize just how much larger and more mysterious the world seemed just a few short years ago.
Just strikes me as odd that the first man to climb the highest mountain on earth lived long enough to see us send people to the Moon, robots to Mars, detect planets around other stars, be able to trace our own origins as a species back to Africa through genetics and map every square inch of the planet from orbit, etc...
RIP Sir Edmund Hillary 
