The man who climbed Everest: the death of Sir Edmund Hillary in January represented the passing of the world's best known and best loved mountaineer. Although he came to be defined by his achievement in climbing the world's tallest mountain, he spent the remainder of his life or working tirelessly to improve the lives of his beloved Sherpas. Stephen Venables on the life of a remarkable man.(In memoriam)

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With the possible exception of his summit companion, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary was the first--and only--mountaineer to achieve true global fame. From the age of 33, he was irrevocably, inescapably branded as The Man Who Climbed Everest.

To fellow mountaineers, that label probably diminished, rather than enhanced, Hillary's standing as a climber: Mount Everest, after all, isn't the most difficult or beautiful climb in the world, and the quasi-military nature of its first ascent goes against the grain of traditional mountaineering. However, look closely at Hillary's ...

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