Edmund Hillary

I was definitely very much a country boy.

— Edmund Hillary

You climb for the hell of it.

— Edmund Hillary

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

— Edmund Hillary

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

— Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

— Edmund Hillary

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

— Edmund Hillary

It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.

— Edmund Hillary

Boredom has always been a problem.

— Edmund Hillary

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

— Edmund Hillary

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

— Edmund Hillary

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

— Edmund Hillary

Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top

— Edmund Hillary

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

— Edmund Hillary

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

— Edmund Hillary

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

— Edmund Hillary

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

— Edmund Hillary

I was definitely seriously affected [with wifw and daughter deaths], no question, but I learnt to devote myself to the things that…

— Edmund Hillary

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow…

— Edmund Hillary

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just…

— Edmund Hillary

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot…

— Edmund Hillary

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit…

— Edmund Hillary

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

— Edmund Hillary

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and…

— Edmund Hillary

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya…

— Edmund Hillary

There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing…

— Edmund Hillary

In those days we were punished very frequently and I felt that it was often unjust, and so I would resist the…

— Edmund Hillary

I have the challenges sort of already there and as a consequence my companions feel a considerable desire to do this, too,…

— Edmund Hillary

June [Hillary] had been doing all these things - the Himalayas and all the rest of it - so we had done…

— Edmund Hillary

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at…

— Edmund Hillary

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would…

— Edmund Hillary

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition.…

— Edmund Hillary

I think global warming is a very real problem for our world. I've seen the changes that have taken place in the…

— Edmund Hillary

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

— Edmund Hillary

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

— Edmund Hillary

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

— Edmund Hillary

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that…

— Edmund Hillary

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

— Edmund Hillary

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

— Edmund Hillary

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

— Edmund Hillary

I get older I get more cantankerous, but June [Hillary] gets a bit more cantankerous, too.

— Edmund Hillary