Fare thee well, Edmund Hillary

It was a documentary on the 1953 summit of Everest by Edmund Hillary
and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay that so captivated Deshun, then aged 9.  From that day she dreamed of one day becoming a mountaineer and following in his footsteps.  
And so it is perhaps fitting that Deshun was on the highest mountain in Africa, and preparing to summit the 2nd mountain in her quest to climb the highest peak on each of the 7 continents, when it became known on Thursday that Sir Edmund Hillary had died, aged 88.
Although he continued his adventurous pursuits (he went on to be the 1st man to have been to the top of Everest and both the North and South Poles) he dedicated much of his life's work to the Sherpa people of Nepal.  Appalled at the lack of basic facilities in the Himalayas he founded the Himalayan Trust building many schools, medical facilities, etc, in the remote mountain areas populated by Sherpa people.   The work of the trust continues as they strive to improve the lives of the Sherpa for whom he had such great regard.
No doubt that 1st summit of Everest gave many a child hope that their dreams could come true and that is, perhaps, the greatest legacy left by those 2 courageous and determined men.
Edmund Hillary on Pumori, surveying Everest for a possible route to the summit