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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I was definitely very much a country boy.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

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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