Have you ever had one of those moments – when an experience feels so astounding, overwhelming, experientially impactful that it stays with you forever?

In 1998 Sir Edmund Hillary published a book called A View from the Summit. The book detailed not only his triumphant climb of Mt. Everest, along with Tenzing Norgay, the first one ever to do so in 1953, but the volume first spoke of Hillary’s dreams and aspirations as a young child, his spirit of adventure, and his desire to set out on quests that no one had dared before. At first a beekeeper in Auckland, New Zealand, Hillary had big dreams. And he would go on to fulfill those dreams and inspire others to do so after him. But more importantly, after viewing the world from 29,000 feet, his perspective on the world and its people radically cha…