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

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• Edmund Hillary:

  I was definitely very much a country boy.

• Edmund Hillary:

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

• Edmund Hillary:

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

• Edmund Hillary:

  My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly i

• Edmund Hillary:

  If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me,

• Edmund Hillary:

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

• Edmund Hillary:

  When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challen

• Edmund Hillary:

  If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mou

• Edmund Hillary:

  No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

• Edmund Hillary:

  I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just str