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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.... (more Edmund Hillary quotes)
His wife, Louise, and daughter, Belinda, died in a plane crash in 1975, while heading for Lukla in northern Nepal, where they were going to work in a hospital built with the New Zealander’s help.
His autobiography Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, was published in 1975.
He is an Honorary President of the American Himalayan Foundation, a foundation which helps people in the Himalayahs.
He appears on the New Zealand five dollar note and is the only... (more Edmund Hillary trivia)
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Triumph on Everest: A Photobiography of Sir Edmund Hillary by Broughton Coburn |
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Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest by Anne Keiser and Cynthia Russ Ramsey |
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Reaching the Summit: Edmund Hillary's Life of Adventure by Alexa Johnston |
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