Original source: The Guardian

When he reached the summit of Everest for the first time, in 1990, Peter Hillary used a new-fangled satellite phone to call his father. As pleased as the old man must have been to hear his son's voice from the roof of the world, his advice was typically to the point: "You're not done until you're down."

Yesterday Hillary junior recalled his moment on top of the world at the memorial service for his father, Sir Edmund Hillary, who died in January aged 88. Held at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, there will never be another occasion quite like it, simply because there will never another bee-keeping Kiwi mountaineer able to live such an extraordinary life again.

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