Organizational Democracy

‘“I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe,” he said in 1977.

“But there is something about building up a comradeship — that I still believe is the greatest of all feats — and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers.

It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.”’

-from “Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conqueror of Everest, Dies at 88“, by Robert D. McFadden in the New York Times, with photo by the Associated Press of Edmund Hillary and Sardar Tenzing Norgay in 1953

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