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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Edmund Hillary

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for 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 enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too. "

" 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. "

" Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer. "

" I was definitely very much a country boy. "

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

" I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. "

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

" Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. "

" Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it. "

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

Edmund Hillary

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

" Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. "

" Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. "

" I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains. "

" Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were. "

" I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men. "

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

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

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

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

" I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad. "

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

" 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. "