True Greatness

Two men landed on the moon, Armstrong and Aldrin, stepping on the moon within twenty minutes of each other. The feat is well documented and Armstrong went down in history as the first man on the moon. Yet he never capitalised on it.
Two men reached Mt. Everest - Hillary and Norgay. No one, apart from the two,  knew who was the first to do so - and they decided to keep it so. Much later Tenzing revealed in his memoirs that Hillary was the first man on Everest.

INSIGHT
Both Armstrong and Hillary could have chosen to project themselves as great heroes. That they did not, shows their true greatness.