Trivia Question: What achievement did this person perform to become well known?
Trivia Question: What achievement did this person perform to become well known?
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Trivia Question: What achievement did this person perform to become well known?
Hey! It's Christchurch!
7 0 ReplySure is, what’s left of the inner city
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That's Sir Edmund Hillary. He and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first two people to reach the peak of Mount Everest.
The first words ever spoken at the highest point of the world were "We've knocked the bastard off!"
6 0 ReplyI think those were the first words on the peak to be recorded by a Western explorer. Who's to say some local didn't climb the mountain in any of the years before, got there, and was like "Well, that's a nice view but why did I bother doing this again?" and went back down?
3 0 ReplyUntil that point, they wouldn't have had access to bottled oxygen.
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We have a winner!
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It's a bit of a tell me you are a Kiwi without telling me you are a Kiwi. 🤣
6 0 ReplySweet as 😜 & remember “always blow on the pie”
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Didn't expect to see something like this pop up! I'm really curious to see if he's recognisable to people in other countries!
4 0 ReplyNot recognizable to me from his profile (Canada)
5 0 ReplyHe looks young on this mural, will throw a lot of people off
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Hey, it's sir Ed!
3 0 ReplyInvented bananas?
3 0 ReplyThat is not a person, it is a mural depicting a person.
2 0 ReplyCeci n'est pas une pipe
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