I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe … But there is something about building up a comradeship — that I still believe is the greatest of all feats — and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.


Statement of 1977 as quoted in "Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88" in The New York Times (online edition) (10 January 2008)

The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/asia/11cn...

Edmund Hillary Quotes

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe … But there is something about building up a...

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe … But there is something about building up a...

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe … But there is something about building up a...

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe … But there is something about building up a...