Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first person to set foot on the top of Mt. Everest, died. He is arguably the most famous kiwi that ever lived and I believe put the phrase 'Because it's there' into the social vocabulary. It's hard to imagine that only 50+ years ago Mt. Everest had never been conquered by anybody. One of the last parts of the earth to be touched by humans. Nowadays it seems every aspiring mountaineer has left candy bar wrappers (and sometimes their bodies) on the trail to the top.