More from Edmund Hillary

  1. I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
  2. In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of determination, a…
  3. 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. It would have been…
  4. We didn't know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we w…
  5. I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't …
  6. I was very much aware that we still had to get safely back down the mountain again and that was quite an important factor. I really felt th…
  7. Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
  8. I was just an enthusiastic mountaineer of modest abilities who was willing to work quite hard and had the necessary imagination and determi…

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