The joy of achievement requires difficulty

On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to climb to the top of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, a summit over 29,000 feet high.  Various expeditions had tried, as early as 1885—but none reached the summit before Hillary and Norgay nearly 70 years later. On September 19, […]