It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”

“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” “I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.”

“I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.”

“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.” “Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.”

“On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.” “I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.” “If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.”
“Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.”
“While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.”

“Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.”