Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” Napoléon Bonaparte, + May 5th, 1821)
Day: May 8, 2023
The Human Spirit Vincit Omnia
On this day, May 8, in 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler stood on the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, at 29,031.7 feet. To get any higher, you’d have to fly. Everest long remained unconquered, and was only scaled for the first time by Tenzig Norgay and Edmund Hillary in 1953. What made[…]