Originally Posted by toomanymikes:
People like old ed made Britiain hold its head high even though the old empire was leeching away bit by bit. I suppose the closest thing we have to him nowadays is Dame Ellen MacArthur.
Problem is he was a Kiwi. I think it's a bigger shame that when Tensing Norgay died there wasn't this much fuss. Without him Edmund Hillary wouldn't have gotten as far.
[Reply]