Quotes by Edmund Hillary

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But theres no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.