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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 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it. "
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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. "
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" I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too. "
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" 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. "
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Me
" I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was. "
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Myself
" 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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" 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. "
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You
Summit
" 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. "
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Building
Effort
" Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were. "
Edmund Hillary
Young
Want
Head
" When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. "
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Relationship
Climbing
Up
" 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. "
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Great
People
Name
" 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. "
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Mountains
Challenge
Great
" 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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Challenge
Pretty
Down
" It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. "
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Conquer
Mountain
Ourselves
" 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 think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers. "
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Think
Top
Surprise
" I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. "
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Think
Good
I Think
" Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition. "
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Through
Try
Once
" 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. "
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Laugh
Planning
" 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. "
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Finance
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" 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. "
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Skiing
Old
Better
" Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. "
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Mountain
Top
Life
" The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. "
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Life
Truth Is
New
" 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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Great
Know
Think
" 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. "
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