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Joys, burdens of being best face Phelps nowPublished 08/18/08
He stood, literally, on top of the world: Everest. The highest mountain on earth.
"Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky," Sir Edmund Hillary wrote of that moment in 1953 when he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first to the zenith.
Harder to put into words was what it meant to be first, foremost — on that day the best among mankind. The New Zealander spoke of confused emotions: "awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation." Gen. Chuck Yeager uses words like "duty" and "luck," even, to recall the morning, the desert and the little X-1 rocket plane in...
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