Top 57 Quotes by Edmund Hillary

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

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.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

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

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

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.