Comments on: Sir Edmund Hillary: 1919 – 2008

By: John Selina

John Selina — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:52:24 +0000

Joe Simpson is much better! My favorite writer!

By: Jason Landry

Jason Landry — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:50:36 +0000

I would also recommend the writings of Joe Simpson, but my favourite is ‘This Game of Ghosts’. Greg Child’s stuff is worth a read as well.

By: Kurt Trew

Kurt Trew — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:17:23 +0000

Bit of a latecomer to this post, and I’ve been trying to track-down the web site since I heard, but I wondered if you’ve ever seen this poster.

RIP

By: VJ

VJ — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:03:48 +0000

Gotta look up to people like that :)

By: Szybka Dieta

Szybka Dieta — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:20:03 +0000

He’ll be always remembered. Do you know who was the first woman to be on the hightest mountain?

By: Matt Shaw

Matt Shaw — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:48:02 +0000

If you enjoyed the White Spider, then I would thoroughly recommend Reading the books by Joe Simpson – Especially Touching the Void and The Beckoning Silence. The latter being his dissertation on climbing the Eiger and how his own experiences echoed those of Toni Kurz. The film adaptations of these are also essential viewing.

By: Gear

Gear — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:20:36 +0000

I’m pretty sure that some big station like discovery or national will make a documentabout great people like Sir Edmund or Kukuczka who have been on Everest or all 8 great 8k’s ,soon

By: Adrien McNamarra

Adrien McNamarra — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:10:17 +0000

I have always been impressed by Hillary’s deed. Nowadays anyone with enough money and reasonably fit can get to the top of Everest, but in Hillary’s times, with only primitive equipment available climbing the Everest was a remarkable achievement. He will be sorely missed…

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:28:43 +0000

If you haven’t seen it already, you should definitely watch The Man Who Skied Down Everest, a documentary about Yuichiro Miura’s 1970 attempt to ski down the Lhotse face. It’s shot in panavision, which is pretty incredible, even by today’s standards. Looks great in hi-def.

By: Jamie Knight

Jamie Knight — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:56:48 +0000

Hiya,

Yeah, Everest, looks stunning in HD, as does blue planet....

A shame he has gone on, though he had a good term…

RIP,

^licks^

Jamie & Lion

By: Jody

Jody — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:11:26 +0000

I agree, Mark, very inspirational stuff. If you have time, the Discovery Channel has wonderful documentary series (named simply ‘Everest’) which is available in breath-taking HD format complete with helmet-mounted ‘Sherpa cams’.