Edmund Hillary Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Edmund Hillary

  Men, Thinking, Enthusiasm

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• 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.

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• I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

  Edmund Hillary

  Blood, Long, Feelings

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• I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and that does help out, but, in general, there are so many other people who are skilled in their field that I feel very ordinary.

  Edmund Hillary

  People, Wish, Ordinary

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

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• 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

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• I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do like to sort of succeed and so that tends to drive me on, as it were, and I don't give up too easily.

  Edmund Hillary

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Thinking

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

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• I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

  Edmund Hillary

  Dream, School, Adventurous

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

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• Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.

  Edmund Hillary

  Hero, Men, Names

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• Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you.

  Edmund Hillary

  Get Better, Conquer, Everest

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

  Edmund Hillary

  Believe, Climbing, Building Up

  "Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2008.

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• I have the challenges sort of already there and as a consequence my companions feel a considerable desire to do this, too, and they feel very put out if they are left in the cold, so there we have it. We have me who has lots of ideas and then we have a very good team who wish - who are persuaded almost - to take part in these challenges.

  Edmund Hillary

  Team, Ideas, Challenges

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

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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.

  Edmund Hillary

  Beautiful, School, Important

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

  Edmund Hillary

  Quality, Ordinary, Adventuring

  "Sir Edmund Hillary, First Man to Conquer Mount Everest, Dies at 88", www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2008.

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• I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.

  Edmund Hillary

  Hero, Numbers, Feelings

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much .

  Edmund Hillary

  Mother, Lines, Our Family

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

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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.

  Edmund Hillary

  Couple, Guides, Mountaineering

  "Sir Edmund Hillary: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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

  Edmund Hillary

  Climbing, Miserable

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• 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

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• I had never experienced anything like it before and I don't think I have experienced anything like it since [on Ruapehu]. It was my dreams coming true in a way, and from there on I tended to become more of a doer than a dreamer.

  Edmund Hillary

  Dream, Thinking, Doers

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

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• Boredom has always been a problem.

  Edmund Hillary

  Boredom, Problem

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• There are lots and lots of challenges that I wished - at the time - that I had done.There are lots of occasions where there were exciting things to be done but for some reason or another it was physically impossible for us to do them. I still wouldn't mind if I was able to go down into this most impressive valley in the Antarctic, but of course those things are beyond me now.

  Edmund Hillary

  Challenges, Mind, Able

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

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• There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti.

  Edmund Hillary

  Civilization, Yeti, Littles

  Edmund Hillary, Edmund Hillary (Sir.), Desmond Doig (1962). “High in the thin cold air: the story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia”

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• I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

  Edmund Hillary

  June, Despair, Moments

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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