Quotes by Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary

[Derek] Shackleton was a man who – it’s probably arrogant to say it – but he was a little bit like me. He undertook incredible dangers and carried on over the sea and over the ice and all the rest of it. He was a remarkable man.

Ice

Men

Sea

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Book

Lonely

Reading

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

Challenges

Ends

Men

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.

Mountain

Snow

Thrill

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

Family

Life

Love

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

Firsts

May

Morning

George Lowe was the one who opened the mail, and George started laughing uproariously and I looked up at him in astonishment and said, “What’s so funny?” And he said, “You’ve been given a title”, and I said, “Ha, ha, big joke.” I didn’t believe him but, sure enough, in this letter it indicated that the Queen had given me a title.

Believe

Laughing

Queens

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

Important

Life Is

Mountain

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not – it’s not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

Despair

June

Moments

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.

Thinking

Want

World

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Adventure

Adventurous

Affection

Attitude

Beach

Beautiful

Believe

Bits

Book

Bridges

Building Up

Challenges

Children

Civilization

Climbing

Climbing Mount Everest

Climbs

Conquer

Consequence

Couple

Decided

Desire

Despair

Determination

Disaster

Dream

Ends

Enthusiasm

Everest

Factors

Family

Famous Motivational

Feelings

Firsts

Focus

Fruition

Graduation

Groups

Growing

Guides

Hands

Hate

Helping Others

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I Hate

Ice

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Ideas

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Quotes by Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary

[Derek] Shackleton was a man who – it’s probably arrogant to say it – but he was a little bit like me. He undertook incredible dangers and carried on over the sea and over the ice and all the rest of it. He was a remarkable man.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

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.

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

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

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not – it’s not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

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.

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