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...funding from the government and cooperation from villagers have proved fleeting, and his plan to put artificial glaciers in over 100 villages of his native highlands now faces Everest-sized obstacles...
...almost 55 years after the ascent that made him and Tenzing two of the heroes of the 20th century. For one who had reached such heights, he was a strange mix of confidence and modesty, bravado and reticence. He had the killer instinct needed to conquer Everest, and the unassuming nobility to serve the Nepalese people who helped...
...Success, once gained, was never flaunted, simply filed away. Hillary remained always modest, always a little uncomfortable with his knighthood and his hero status. "I never deny the fact that I think I did pretty well on Everest," he said. "But I was not the heroic figure the media and the public made me out to be." Nor was Everest's summit the highest point of his life. "For me the most rewarding moments have not always been the great moments," he wrote in his memoir Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, "for what can surpass a tear on your departure...
...reach it in a motor vehicle. In 1962 he began working to better the lives of the Sherpas who had so often helped him. His Himalayan Trust built schools and clinics and restored monasteries. The numbers of people - many almost totally reliant on Sherpa guides - who flocked to Everest in his wake left him uneasy. "Everest, unfortunately, is largely becoming a money-making concern," he said in 1992. "If you are reasonably fit and have $35,000, you can be conducted to the top of the world...
...filmmaker, were on a short trek in Nepal when an American walker stopped and showed Hillary how to hold an ice ax. "Hillary listened and thanked him, but said nothing else," recalled Dillon. "The American went away without any idea whom he had spoken to." The conqueror of Everest didn't see himself as a hero. Others always will...