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Edmund Hillary

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You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.


— Edmund Hillary


#motivational

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.


— Edmund Hillary


#mountain #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.


— Edmund Hillary


#climb #climbs #expeditions #hell #money

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.


— Edmund Hillary


#become #decide #extraordinary #extraordinary things #ordinary things

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.


— Edmund Hillary


#civilization #little #precious






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Stiles printers. While there he called for the British government to contribute to the upkeep of Scott's and Shackleton's huts. Public recognition

Hillary was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) on 6 June 1953; member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ) in 1987; and Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG) on 22 April 1995.

Hillary was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in 1958.

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