History of Voyages- Mt. Everest
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Below is Sir Edmund Hillary's obituary from the New York Times. Hillary was the first person to summit Mt. Everest in 1953.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/world/asia/11hillary.html?hp

While this item does not directly apply to our research; I am posting it as a reminder that in the recent past voyages were not activities to be undertaken for pleasure or leisure. Voyages were used for imperialistic, scientific, or economic purposes, to name a few. As the obituary mentions, Hillary's ascent of Everest was a source of national pride for the United Kingdom, at a time in it's history when the UK was still recovering from he destruction of World War II.

Two other voyages in the same vain that the obituary mentions are Roald Amundsen being the first to trek to the South Pole in 1911 and Charles Lindbergh being the first to fly a non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.

It is also worth noting that some of the same competative reasons that these men, supported by either a nation or private industry, undertook these voyages may apply to the private citezen's whom are undertaking leisure voyages today.

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