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Them Quotes by Edmund Hillary
- I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities…
- 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…
- 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…
- I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of…
- The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the…
- 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…
- I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the…
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