The world mourns Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who rose to worldwide fame in 1953 when he became the first man to climb Everest. "A heroic figure, New Zealand's most famous of the world", called the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clarke. For the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, was "a genuine hero who captured the imagination of the world." "We lost a great friend of Nepal and a world hero," said Minister of Tourism, Prihtvi Subba Gurung.
The community of Nepalese Sherpas, calling him "Burra Sahib" (great stature, big heart) for his humanitarian work in the Himalayan highlands, where he built schools, hospitals and airstrips, he is remembered as a "second father" and announced that he will dedicate a monument. In homage to the Buddhist tradition, were also held prayers for his reincarnation as a man. The company that ushered in the history dell'alpinimso Hillary was completed May 29, 1953, when he came to the summit of 8,848 meters along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgaylen. Tap the highest peak in the world was a challenge that had tried unsuccessfully for decades the biggest climbers.
Framed in a British expedition, Hillary should not be the first at the top: other companions arrived a few hundred meters from the "roof of the world but were stopped by fatigue and lack of oxygen. After a night of rest, the New Zealand reached the summit along with Tenzing, though, to avoid controversy, it was left to believe that we had come together. Only many years later, the Nepalese Sherpa revealed to the world the truth.
When Hillary was reunited with the rest of the expedition, took off his oxygen mask and uttered a phrase become a legend: "We've beaten this bastard." The conquest of Everest was performed on the same day in London was crowned Queen Elizabeth, which increased the patriotic fervor for the enterprise. Modest and generous, Sir Edmund Hillary had become a "second father" to the Nepalese people.
Hillary has devoted much of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan Trust he founded, managed to build schools and hospitals. He was also honorary president of the American Himalayan Foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the ecological balance and the living conditions of the Himalayan peoples. Hillary, who in everyday life practicing the profession of a beekeeper, said he considered his success in the humanitarian field as his greatest achievement.
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