Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, died Friday. He was 88.
The gangling New Zealander took his fame in stride, preferring to be called “Ed” and considering himself an “ordinary person with ordinary qualities.”
I am impressed and inspired by ordinary people who have a dream to accomplish something extraordinary, and the ability to turn that dream into a reality.
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I had always heard the quote as “Nothing Ventured, nothing gained.” Maybe it’s just my bad ‘American’ English…