It's all bullshit on Everest these days. Edmund Hillary More Quotes by Edmund Hillary More Quotes From Edmund Hillary The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. Edmund Hillary dream adventure past Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top Edmund Hillary motivation important strong I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and that does help out, but, in general, there are so many other people who are skilled in their field that I feel very ordinary. Edmund Hillary wish ordinary people Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it. Edmund Hillary mountain thrill snow I have the challenges sort of already there and as a consequence my companions feel a considerable desire to do this, too, and they feel very put out if they are left in the cold, so there we have it. We have me who has lots of ideas and then we have a very good team who wish - who are persuaded almost - to take part in these challenges. Edmund Hillary team challenges ideas Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. Edmund Hillary climbing attitude science I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes. Edmund Hillary hero feelings numbers Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims Edmund Hillary family love life I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur. Edmund Hillary enthusiasm men thinking 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 about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation. Edmund Hillary building-up climbing believe I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things. Edmund Hillary adventurous dream school As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. Edmund Hillary lonely reading book Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself. Edmund Hillary adventuring quality ordinary I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do like to sort of succeed and so that tends to drive me on, as it were, and I don't give up too easily. Edmund Hillary dont-give-up giving-up thinking Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time. Edmund Hillary hero names men My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. Edmund Hillary holiday taken years It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. Edmund Hillary real adventure travel 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 thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. Edmund Hillary mountain challenges thinking There are lots and lots of challenges that I wished - at the time - that I had done.There are lots of occasions where there were exciting things to be done but for some reason or another it was physically impossible for us to do them. I still wouldn't mind if I was able to go down into this most impressive valley in the Antarctic, but of course those things are beyond me now. Edmund Hillary able challenges mind I had never experienced anything like it before and I don't think I have experienced anything like it since [on Ruapehu]. It was my dreams coming true in a way, and from there on I tended to become more of a doer than a dreamer. Edmund Hillary doers dream thinking
