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" I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it. "
Edmund Hillary
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" I was definitely very much a country boy. "
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Country Boy
Very
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" Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were. "
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Young
Want
Head
" 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. "
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Lead
Important
Fact
" When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. "
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You
Pretty
High
" 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. "
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Holiday
Group
Mountains
" I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. "
Edmund Hillary
Realm
Am
Think
" I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was. "
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Never
Hero
Myself
" On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there. "
Edmund Hillary
Had
Feeling
First
" Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. "
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Mountain
Top
Life
" It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. "
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You
Real
Adventure
" I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics. "
Edmund Hillary
Medical
Great
Building
" While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges. "
Edmund Hillary
World
End
Challenges
" If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers. "
Edmund Hillary
Problems
Own
Me
" Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself. "
Edmund Hillary
Myself
Ordinary
Person
" 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. "
Edmund Hillary
City
School
Mother
" Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. "
Edmund Hillary
Bit
Down
Never
" When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. "
Edmund Hillary
Relationship
Climbing
Up
" Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition. "
Edmund Hillary
Through
Try
Once
" People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. "
Edmund Hillary
People
Extraordinary
Accomplish
" Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes. "
Edmund Hillary
Own
Tourism
Strong
" I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better. "
Edmund Hillary
Change
Finance
Money
" The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. "
Edmund Hillary
Life
Truth Is
New
" I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary. "
Edmund Hillary
Challenge
Pretty
Down
" I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. "
Edmund Hillary
Mountains
Challenge
Great
" 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. "
Edmund Hillary
Think
Late
Mature
" I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it. "
Edmund Hillary
Work
Motivation
Work Hard
" I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it. "
Edmund Hillary
Time
Thinking
Think
" I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. "
Edmund Hillary
Safe
Again
Always
" There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti. "
Edmund Hillary
Precious
Appeal
Little
" 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. "
Edmund Hillary
Skiing
Old
Better