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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant bonus.

— Edmund Hillary

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On my expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die. It simply would not have happened.

I am hell-bent for the South Pole — God willing and crevasses permitting.

Better if he had said something natural like, "Jesus, here we are."

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

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I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

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