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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

~Edmund Hillary

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

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Climbing Did Enjoyed Friends Good Good Friends Lot Other People Quite Quite A Lot Solo Too

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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

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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

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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

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I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Challenge Down Everest Fell Many Part Pretty Scared Scary Times

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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.

~Edmund Hillary

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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

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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

~Edmund Hillary

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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

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Explorer

Born: July 20th, 1919

Died: January 11th, 2008

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