A famous Kiwi gone.

[DrEntropy]

Sir Edmond has passed.

Another legend. He'd a great run. Good on 'im!

 

[ecurie_ecosse]

HEAR! HEAR!

One of the best,Sir ED!

Stuart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif

 

[AngliaGT]

Does Basil know about this?

- Doug

 

[DrEntropy]

..does now. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

 

[vagt6]

Hillary was a great man in the truest sense, one of Britain's greatest heroes (and mine, too). I highly recommend his memoir, "Nothing Venture, Nothing Win". It's great reading.

From my local newspaper this morning:

"Hillary told the Chicago Tribune in 1989 that although so many people identified him with his more extreme treks, My life is not so much stepping on top of a peak, or traveling to the South Pole, but, rather more, the building of schools and medical clinics for the very worthy people of the Himalayas."

RIP, Sir Edmund.

 

[SteveL]

Hillary was a great man in the truest sense, one of Britain's greatest heroes (and mine, too).
RIP, Sir Edmund.

Hate to say this, but Sir Edmund wasn't "British"

He was a Kiwi, AKA a New Zealander...

He was my hero as well, as I was born there...

 

[Guest]

Doesn't matter where he was born.
He was good at something - so we adopted him...
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Sad he's passed tho. I can think of plenty who'll be missed less.

 

[bugimike]

As a matter of fact, he was "British", as New Zealand was a colony and part of the "British Empire" and subsequently became part of the British Commonwealth and he would have been accorded all the rights and privilages of being a British subject! You would be correct in saying he was not English, because that denotes a location, not a citizenship. I was born "British" on the island of Cyprus, which was a British colony at the time. Bermudans would have also been considered British!! At one time, as the expression says, the sun never set on the British Empire!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif

 

[vagt6]

As a matter of fact, he was "British", as New Zealand was a colony and part of the "British Empire" and subsequently became part of the British Commonwealth and he would have been accorded all the rights and privilages of being a British subject! You would be correct in saying he was not English, because that denotes a location, not a citizenship. I was born "British" on the island of Cyprus, which was a British colony at the time. Bermudans would have also been considered British!! At one time, as the expression says, the sun never set on the British Empire!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif

And, he was also British enough to be knighted by the newly crowned Queen. MOre importantly for "Britishness", Hillary was a member of the Knights of the Garter, a very exclusive "club"!

 

[bugimike]

Here, here!!!!