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

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

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

" I was definitely very much a country boy. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "