Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG, ONZ, KBEwas a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. Hillary was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth20 July 1919
beautiful school important
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
interesting challenges valleys
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
lonely book reading
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
famous-motivational conquer
It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.
real adventure pay
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
morning men rocks
It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by, he said. Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
snow mountain thrill
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.
climbing giving challenges
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.
everest climbs mt-everest
Some day I'm going to climb Everest.
love family happiness
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims
thinking challenges mountain
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
realm rightly
I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
might pioneering rush
Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
relationship
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.