Edmund Hillary Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.”

“When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.”

“I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.”

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

“Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.”

“On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.”

“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 summit.”

“My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.”

“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.”

“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.”