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High Adventure : The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (1955)
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My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.

— Edmund Hillary

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me." in the context of "High Adventure : The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (1955)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Edmund Hillary

About Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.