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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
Edmund Hillary
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Edmund Hillary
Age: 88 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 20
Died: 2008
Died: January 11
Autobiographer
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Tāmaki Makaurau
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
Sir Edmund Hillary
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Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you.
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I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
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Boredom has always been a problem.
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Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.
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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.
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