Explorer Quotes

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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.
I was definitely very much a country boy.
I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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.
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
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.
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.
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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.
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.
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.
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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.
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