Edmund Hillary Quotes

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for...

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary cha...

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to...

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, ...

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. Howe...

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no...

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

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for ...

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by...

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was ...

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

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

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta...