More Than a Mountaineer

Walht - combine close reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of people known as heroes or leaders.

Picture of Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary, his recognition is commonly known for his success of climbing Mount Everest, but there were more things about him than being a mountaineer.

Believing in helping those in need, his compassion for the children in their lack of education encouraged him to support them. This can be recognised in the way he used his fame to get financial support for the needs he had seen for the people of the village.

  He was a person who stood up for the people of the Himalayan village in Nepal. This was displayed  when he had risen enough money and funds from global donations to build them a school, hospitals, clinics, an airfield and bridges resulting from found the Himalayan Trust which became a charity foundation with the assistance of the village.

  Being an inspirational mountaineer & leader to others and the present people in the Himalayan village can easily entitle him as a charitable hero and representative.