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" 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. "

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" When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition. "

" I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it. "

" Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards. "

" The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. "

" If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. "

" I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. "

" I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was. "

" No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. "

" When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. "

" When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. "

" I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur. "

" On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there. "

" People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. "

" I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too. "

" 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. "

" I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate. "

" I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. "

" 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. "

" I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice. "