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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.
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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Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!
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I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.
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We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.
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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.
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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.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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George Lowe was the one who opened the mail, and George started laughing uproariously and I looked up at him in astonishment and said, What's so funny? And he said, You've been given a title, and I said, Ha, ha, big joke. I didn't believe him but, sure enough, in this letter it indicated that the Queen had given me a title.
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I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.
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I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.
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I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.
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Boredom has always been a problem.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.
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Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims
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Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top
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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
Edmund Hillary
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
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