Edmund Hillary Quotes on Adventure
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I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.
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I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe ... But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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Some day I'm going to climb Everest.
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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.