Age hasn't dimmed his enthusiasm for the mountains, though he admits to altitude sickness these days. Sir Edmund Hillary, 83, the Kiwi beekeeper-turned-ace-mountaineer who, along with Tenzing Norgay, became the first to summit Mount Everest in 1953, is now part of the mountain lore. On the way to Kathmandu to attend the 50th anniversary of the first ascent, Sir Edmund dropped in at Delhi to attend a function renaming two roads after him and Tenzing. Excerpts of an interview with Soutik Biswas: