Personal Highlights:

• The teacher who has a heart attack in the school playground does not necessarily have to be driven away immediately; no damage is done by...
• All funeral parlors have their offices as close to street level as possible. Why this should be so is hard to say; one might be...
• For example, how great the difference was between our days. While my days were jam-packed with meaning, when each step opened a new opportunity, and...

Personal Highlights:

• In 1865, nine years after Sikhdar’s computations had been confirmed, Waugh bestowed the name Mount Everest on Peak XV, in honor of Sir George Everest, his predecessor as surveyor general.
• The first eight expeditions to Everest were British, all of which attempted the mountain from the northern, Tibetan, side—not so much because it presented the...
• And thus, shortly before noon on May 29, 1953, did Hillary and Tenzing become the first men to stand atop Mount Everest.