Edmund Hillary Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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

  Edmund Hillary

  Important, Mountain, Life Is

  "Everest legend Edmund Hillary dies" by Julie Clothier, edition.cnn.com. January 21, 2008.

• I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

  Edmund Hillary

  Motivational, Mountain, Conquer

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

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Science, Climbing

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 5, 2005.

• It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by, he said. Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

  Edmund Hillary

  Morning, Men, Rocks

• Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Snow, Mountain, Thrill

• 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.

  Edmund Hillary

  Taken, Holiday, Years

• 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.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, Climbing, Names

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

• 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.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, Challenges, Mountain

• I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains. I went to Ruapehu and for the first time I saw snow. I had never seen snow before and for 10 days the group of us had a marvellous time.

  Edmund Hillary

  Snow, Mountain, Groups

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

• I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he was strong, a good man on a mountain, with a great sense of humour, and I liked that. I think George and I could've done that together ... I've probably never told George that.

  Edmund Hillary

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

• 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.

  Edmund Hillary

  Climbing, Giving, Challenges

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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