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If you ever wanted to find Sir Edmund Hillary, who with his Sherpa guide became the first to scale Mount Everest and stand atop the roof of the world, all you had to do was look under H in the phone book. He lived in the same house in Auckland, New Zealand, for most of his adult life. It was bought...

It began by a campfire on a glacier in 1960, when he asked some Sherpa mates how he could help a people he admired deeply. Educate our children, they replied. So he started work on a single school - but, as he told it, \"people came from villages miles and miles away, days away, and kept coming with petitions saying, 'Can you help us build a school or medical clinic?'\" Since 1965 [Edmund Hillary]'s Himalayan Trust has been doing that, and much more. Students from Hillary schools have gone on to gain PhDs, pilot jumbo jets and run companies. Hillary shrugged it off as \"a bit of help\", as he shrugged off any praise. He saw \"Hillary the great\" as an impostor. When I asked how he dealt with the adulation, Sir Ed replied: \"I say thank you very much and carry on doing the next thing.\" As his great climbing mate George Lowe put it: \"Icon, well that's a four-letter word to him.\"

Sir Edmund Hillary was a mountain of a man. His physical presence was formidable, his spirit even more so. His face was as long and craggy as the Lhotse face he climbed on his way to the summit of...

While he was that rarest of men -- a true epic hero in an age of 15-minute wannabes -- there wasn't an inch of self-aggrandizement in his mountainous frame.