In High Seas or In Low Seas, I'm Gonna Be Your Friend

“The whole world around us lay spread out like a giant relief map,” he told one interviewer. “I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.”

"Sir Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88"--Robert D. McFadden in today's NY Times.