Quotes by : Edmund Hillary

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap,....

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to....

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken....

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However,....

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on....

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but....

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no....

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto....

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for....