Many years ago, I went on a few days holiday to Grain Britain. I was with a friend.
We were in a town near London, we stayed in a small but very nice hotel. We had made an appointment with English friends who lived in London.
We had asked our friends to go to the city stadium to see a football match because we knew that the stadium’s atmosphere in United Kingdom is absolutely amazing.
The seats weren’t located together and we didn’t go inside the stadium in the right door. The match was near to began and we had to go just to the opposite side of the stadium. We asked for help to an employee who took pity of us and went along with us walking for the edge of the pitch while the match began... it really was very excited to be there listening the songs and shouting of the English supporters of football very close to the players.
Finally we sat in our seats...At the end of the match we had to met again with our friends to go to have dinner. We weren’t able to meet them. Probably we hadn’t understood the right place where they said we had to meet and in those years there were no cellular telephones... so we had to went back to the hotel after having some light food...
Going back we talked about all the things that had happened that made the day not very successful. We wondered what else could happen to us? Maybe the hotel could get on fire? When we arrived to the street where the hotel was placed, we saw a firemen car with the ligths on, the street was closed, and a fireman stopped us. We saw there was some fire in the hotel... we couldn’t believe it, we were astonished.
It was very cold outside. The fire wasn’t important and the firemen finished their work soon. We can go inside the hotel. The room that had had the fire was just below our room, and there was a terrible smell. They put us in another room. It was very late but fortunately we could go to bed and sleep....At five in the early morning when we were resting after so heavy emotions, the door of the room suddenly opened.... A waiter with a tray said very kindly: good morning, here is your breakfast! We hardly could wake up and realise that it was a service mistake...
As Virginia said: "Are we fighting against the inevitable?"
dimarts, 22 de gener del 2008
dilluns, 14 de gener del 2008
Sir Edmund Hillary died
Sir Edmund Hillary died
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to climb to Everest.
Hillary was born in 1919 and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. It was in New Zealand that he began to climb. It was when he was sixteen, during a school trip to Mount Ruapehu, that his interest in mountaineering began. He also discovered that while he was not a natural athlete he was physically strong and had higher levels of endurance than many of his friends.
He was seriously involved in climbing
“Some day I’m going to climb the Everest”, he had told a friend.
Mountain Everest is between Tibet and Nepal. Before 1952 several expeditions failed to reach the summit and some people died in the attempt.
Hillary spent as much time as he could preparing for Everest. He climbed the Southern Alps in summer and winter, to practice both rock climbing and ice pick work. In 1951 Hillary made his first trip to the Himalayas and the following year joined a British Everest Committee training team. Hillary was in the British expedition in 1953 and after some weeks of incredible work in hardly conditions, he and the sherpa Tenzing reached the summit on May 29. They reached the highest point on earth.
The photos of Hillary and Tenzing on the top of the world were spread across the globe.
Hillary made humanitarian work for the Nepalese people for the rest of his life. He helped Sherpas building schools, hospitals and making other social work for people who lived in a so poor country.
He was also concerned by the degradation of the environment of the Himalayas and worked to persuade Nepalese government to make laws protecting the forest and areas around the Everest.
This is my small tribute to Hillary and Tenzing as models of people who work hard for the achievement of goals. I believe that strong motivation is the most important factor for you to achieve the objectives proposed by yourself.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to climb to Everest.
Hillary was born in 1919 and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. It was in New Zealand that he began to climb. It was when he was sixteen, during a school trip to Mount Ruapehu, that his interest in mountaineering began. He also discovered that while he was not a natural athlete he was physically strong and had higher levels of endurance than many of his friends.
He was seriously involved in climbing
“Some day I’m going to climb the Everest”, he had told a friend.
Mountain Everest is between Tibet and Nepal. Before 1952 several expeditions failed to reach the summit and some people died in the attempt.
Hillary spent as much time as he could preparing for Everest. He climbed the Southern Alps in summer and winter, to practice both rock climbing and ice pick work. In 1951 Hillary made his first trip to the Himalayas and the following year joined a British Everest Committee training team. Hillary was in the British expedition in 1953 and after some weeks of incredible work in hardly conditions, he and the sherpa Tenzing reached the summit on May 29. They reached the highest point on earth.
The photos of Hillary and Tenzing on the top of the world were spread across the globe.
Hillary made humanitarian work for the Nepalese people for the rest of his life. He helped Sherpas building schools, hospitals and making other social work for people who lived in a so poor country.
He was also concerned by the degradation of the environment of the Himalayas and worked to persuade Nepalese government to make laws protecting the forest and areas around the Everest.
This is my small tribute to Hillary and Tenzing as models of people who work hard for the achievement of goals. I believe that strong motivation is the most important factor for you to achieve the objectives proposed by yourself.
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