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Comment & Debate: Saturday: Last of the true heroes: Sir Edmund Hillary's rare greatness derives from much more than his ascent of Mount Everest
2008
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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.\"
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