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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Pay
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

First
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Nov 07, 2020

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

May
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

Country
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Nov 07, 2020

I was definitely very much a country boy.

Group
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nov 07, 2020

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Name
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Nov 07, 2020

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

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