Heroes
One of my heroes is not only a real person but also still alive.Every time I see any news about this guy I get inspired, truly.
His name is Sir Edmund Hillary. Born in New Zealand. The first man to climb the Everest.
And that is not the reason he is one of my heroes.
When this guy climbed the Everest, he was shocked with the poverty of the Sherpas. He started going back to Nepal to help those people, he mobilized his family, friends, boy scouts (he is a boy scout leader too), everybody he could. Not just to give something to the Sherpas, mostly to teach the Sherpas how to live better. Building schools, hospitals. Respecting their culture, giving them ‘tools’ to preserve that culture. Another dreamer... but a dreamer that had the will to actually make some dreams come true. This is why he is one of my heroes. Who cares if he climbed that mountain, as far as I am concerned HE is bigger than that mountain.
posted by DCveR at 8:27 AM
9 Comments:
Yep a great man indeed.
How interesting, I had no idea that he was even still alive.
I wish I had a personal sherpa to help guide me through the rough bits in life.
So do I. I could use a sherpa right now. I remember reading about this man in college. I had no idea he did this. Amazing what the history books 'dont tell ya.'
thanks for that- i learned something new
:)
Things like that just make me smile.
:)
He climbed a bigger mountain! It's so much easier to lament the poverty of others than to actually do something about it. It is easier to protest, quarrel about it, than to do something.
He is indeed a hero. And alive too!
One of my heroes...well, heroine, is a woman who was deaf, dumb and blind. Yet she achieved, not only for herself, but wrote books, and had educational institutions built.
Helen Keller.
My favourite quote of hers is, The world is full of suffering. But it is also full of the overcoming of it.
And I also read that even when she got old, she was a cheerful woman.
I loved Helen Kellers Story. I remember my mother reading it to me even before I started school.
anoop: I guess in your country he is quite famous too, with his expeditions leaving from there, right?
phoenix: alive and still fighting for evironmental causes and for his loved Sherpas
icylyrics: not much gets written in history books, that is at least my feeling
ale: no need to thank
viking: and we sure need reasons to smile
tacit: some people still follow their dreams, he was the kind of athlete that tried to win for himself, not for recognition nor money, but for his satisfaction, that was one of the things that always set him aside, the other was the way he always treated others, from his servants to royalty: always with respect
GG: Helen Keller, and what a terrible brat she was at first... very inspiring too, can't even imagine how it would be to be deaf, dumb and blind
Wow, i truly respect that.
It is good to see there are some real live heroes out there.
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