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  1. TIME : 'The Greatest Adventures of All Time - The Race to the Pole' (an interview)
  2. I liked these men very much when I first met them on the mountain nearly a half-century ago, but I came to admire them far more in the year…
  3. The real point of mountain climbing, as of most hard sports, is that it voluntarily tests the human spirit against the fiercest odds, not t…
  4. Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of…
  5. The beekeeper and the Sherpa, one from a remote former colony of the Crown on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, the other from the edge of the…
  6. You defeated me! But you won't defeat me again! Because you have grown all you can grow ... but I am still growing!
  7. People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
  8. I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips …

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