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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.
The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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.
Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Edmund Hillary
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BirthDate
20 July, 1919
DeathDate
11 January, 2008
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New Zealand
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