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Quotes from High Adventure : The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest — Edmund Hillary

1919–2008 New Zealand

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My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.

High Adventure : The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (1955)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Hillary (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.