[rottndog]

Hillary later told New Zealand Press Association he would have abandoned his own pioneering climb in 1953 to save another life.

Spoken like a true gentleman, one who knows the value and importance of a human life.

[caseinpoint]

He puts his money where his mouth is. My uncle was posted in Nepal by the United Nations years ago to conduct soil erosion studies. He only had to climb around the foothills with the Sherpas but managed to get altitude sickness once. Sir Edmund allowed him to recuperate at his home there in Nepal. This was probably fifteen or twenty years ago. Now my uncle and aunt are preparing to go to China in August to teach English for a year. He has a real case of wanderlust.