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.
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 living New Zealander to appear on a banknote.
He was made a member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ) in 1987.
In 1979 he was due to act as a commentator on a sightseeing flight from Auckland to Antartica. He had work commitments elsewhere so his friend, Peter Mulgrew, replaced him. The flight, Air New Zealand Flight 901, would later crash killing Peter, and 256 other people.
He led a jetboat expedition from the mouth of the Ganges River to its source in 1977.
He attended Auckland Grammar School.
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