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" My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. "

Edmund Hillary

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Edmund Hillary

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" 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. "

" Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. "

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

" 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. "

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" I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true. "

" 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. "

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

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