When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
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… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain -… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
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,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
“With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
In those days we were punished very frequently and I felt that it was often unjust, and so I would resist the desire to… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share
![“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.” quote by Edmund Hillary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/165/edmund-hillary-3760_climbs_i-ve-often-thought-about-that-and-the-on_12447.jpg)
