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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "