Heard a cool story about him on the radio the other day. Some sportswriter (Frank deFord, I think) wanted to interview him so he called some other writer he knew in New Zealand to see if he could get his number.
The NZ guy said "wait a sec". deFord was impressed that he had Hillary's number available and mentioned it. The guy said, "No, I'm just looking it up in the phone book."
Wow...
Arguably one the greatest sportsman in the 20th century, and he just lists his name in the phone book. I wanna live in NZ. And I wanna be like Ed.