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I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Anything Been Fortunate Gift Great Great Gift Know Particularly Personally Remembered Think Very Want World

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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.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Beautiful Been Building Clinics Dear Friends Helping Important Maintaining Medical Most Projects Restore Schools Too

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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Commercialization Couple Everest Good Guides Liked Mountaineering Particularly Paying Really Summit You

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

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Adventure Pay Real You

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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Climbing Get High Life Miserable Pretty You

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I was definitely very much a country boy.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Boy Country Country Boy Definitely Much Very

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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Effort Even Improve Make Standards You Your

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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Although City Day Every Every Day Fairly Go Grammar Grammar School Impoverished Keen Mother School Times Traveled Very

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If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Cannot Challenge Forever Go Goes Itself Life Man Meet Mountain Out Responds See Something Struggle Then Understand Upward Which Why You

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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Climbed Everest Mount Mount Everest Remembers Second Time Who

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Explorer

Born: July 20th, 1919

Died: January 11th, 2008

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