It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary View this quote
Boredom has always been a problem. Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer. Edmund Hillary
I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. Edmund Hillary
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains. Edmund Hillary
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 local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better. Edmund Hillary
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. Edmund Hillary
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too. Edmund Hillary
I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics. Edmund Hillary
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 them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really. Edmund Hillary
I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it. Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer
July 20th, 1919 - January 11th, 2008