The death of Sir Edmund Hillary gave a number of leader writers in the papers pause for reflection. The Times was magisterial as ever. One quote stands out from an article well worth reading in it's entirety.

In the final episode of David Attenborough's seminal Life on Earth series, which he devoted to homo sapiens, he called us “compulsive communicators”. We are. But we are also compulsively inquisitive, and restless. When humans lose the urge to roam they will have lost a large part of their humanity.

As coaches surely our role is to help our clients find the time and space to be inquisitive and restless?

Each individual has to identify and tackle their personal 'Everest' at work or at home or at play. When we stand on the peak we might often see further challenges ahead but we are confident in the knowledge that having made this first successful ascent we are equipped with the capability and capacity to make the next ascent. And as Hillary and Tenzing's example shows we are very rarely alone when we do.