“True humility means most strenuous and constant endeavour entirely directed to the service of humanity.”
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest was also probably the most famous Kiwi in the world. He is absolute proof that ordinary people can do the most extraordinary things. In 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. Hillary was a humble man though and always gave credit to his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, without Norgay he probably wouldn’t have made it. He claimed to have climbed the summit similtaniously with Norgay for decades before finally admitting he got there first in his book. Hillary was a very generous person who created a trust to benefit the people of Nepal, which provided them with schools, hospitals, bridges and airfields. In 2003 he was made an honorary citizen of Nepal for all the work that he put into Nepal. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth 2 in one of her forst official acts as Queen in 1953 and in 1995 recieved the highest honor a monarch can bestow, the Order of the Garter,for chivalry. He rose from a humble bee keeper to a great adventurer and in the process improved the lives of people across Nepal. It only goes to prove that anyone can change the world by changing the way people look at it and sometimes that takes an act that to most would seem impossible.
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