EDMUND HILLARY/HILLARY CLINTON: Anniversary of event that became another of those Hillary lies

dfu | 5-29-53 | dfu

[doug from upland]

Today is the anniversary of one of the great achievements of the 20th Century. Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953.

One of the darkest days of the 20th Century occured in Park Ridge, Illinois on October 26, 1947. Hugh and Dorothy Rodham became parents of a bad seed named Hillary Diane Rodham. At the time, Sir Hillary was a beekeeper in New Zealand.

(from Snopes)
During a stop in Nepal while on a south Asian goodwill tour in April 1995, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a brief (and reportedly coincidental) meeting with Sir Edmund Hillary (who, along with Tenzing Norgay, became the first person to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Mt. Everest, in 1953) and told reporters she had been named after the famed mountain climber. The notion that Ms. Clinton's given name was inspired by the man who conquered Everest was almost certainly a bit of fiction invented for political expediency (as many critics have noted, Edmund Hillary didn't become world-famous until six years after Hillary Rodham was born).....

I guess we are all shocked to discover that Hillary Diane Rodham turned into one of the great liars ever, aren't we? There is nothing about which she will not lie. And there are no lives she won't destroy to get back to the White House. What are you going to do about it?

• Tallest mountain in the world.
  
• Number of people to attempt to climb Mt. Everest: approximately 4,000.
  
• Number of people to successfully climb Mt. Everest: 660.
  
• Number of people who have died trying to climb Mt. Everest: 142.
  
• Height: 29,028 feet, or 5 and a half miles above sea level. This is equivalent to the size of almost 20 Empire State Buildings.
  
• Location: part of the Himalaya mountain range; straddles border of Nepal and Tibet.
  
• Named for: Sir George Everest, a British surveyor-general of India.
  
• Age: approximately 60 million years old.
  
• Other names: called "Chomolungma" by Tibetans and Sherpas, which means "Mother Goddess of the Earth."
  
• Countries visible from the summit: Tibet, India, and Nepal.
  
• First to climb to summit: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953.
  
• Notable dates:
  1921 — Dalai Lama allows British reconnaissance party to visit Tibet and the northern side of Mt. Everest.
  1924 — British explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappear near the summit, along the Northeast Ridge. It is possible that they may have actually been the first to reach the summit, but they never returned.
  1949 — Nepal opens its borders, making access to the mountain's southern peak possible.
  1953 — Hillary and Norgay reach summit.
  1963 — First Americans reach the summit.
  1989 — First two women, both American, reach the summit.
  1990 — Sir Edmund Hillary's son, Peter, reaches summit.
  1996 — Eleven people die during spring expeditions.
  

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I thought I read some place that she was NOT named Hillary upon birth...she changed her name to Hillary?

[doug from upland]

She was Hillary at birth.

[Bon mots]

Hillary Supporter:

Hillary 2006!