Edmund Hillary quotes - page 2

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. (Edmund Hillary)
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. View quote
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it. View quote
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. View quote
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. View quote
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. View quote
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides. View quote
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. View quote
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My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. View quote
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself. View quote
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My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. (Edmund Hillary)
When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. View quote
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. View quote
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it. View quote
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there. View quote
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. View quote
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. View quote
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I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really. View quote
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit. View quote
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. View quote
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It was too late to take risks now. I asked Tenzing to belay me strongly, and I started cutting a cautious line of steps up the ridge. Peering from side to side and thrusting with my ice axe, I tried to discover a possible cornice, but everything seemed solid and firm. I waved Tenzing up to me. A few more whacks of the ice–ax, a few very weary steps, and we were on the summit of Everest. (Edmund Hillary)
We didn't know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. View quote
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On my expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die. It simply would not have happened. View quote
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it. View quote
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. View quote
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