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Edmund Hillary


New Zealander
July 20, 1919
Explorer
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.


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


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I was definitely very much a country boy.


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


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


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