Hall of Fame

Sir Edmund Hillary is part of an august group of adventurers, entertainers, geniuses, and outlaws in Lapham’s Quarterly’s Celebrity issue “Hall of Fame”. “The Mountaineer” rubs shoulders with Theseus, Confucius, Socrates, Gengkis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Francis Drake, Robin Hood, Mozart, William Shakespeare, Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Amelia Earhart, and Elvis Presley, “Well George, we knocked the bastard off” is referenced as Sir Ed’s “Famous Saying”. View the spread here.