Sir Edmund Hillary and the Power of Reading

As we remember Sir Edmund Hillary, have a look at this quote on how his early reading first stimulated his dreams of adventuring:

"When I was going to high school, I lived right out in the country, but I went to a big school in the city and I had to travel about two hours each day, each way, to school, so I was on the train about four hours a day. I used to get a book out of the library every day, so I was reading a book a day for quite a number of years. Most of the books had some adventurous slant, so I guess these books tended to stimulate periods when I dreamt about doing all these things. I wasn't really doing anything at that stage, but I was certainly reading about it and dreaming about it. "

From http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0int-1

from Geraldine