I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

I was certainly seriously emotionally affected [ when Louise Hillary and Belinda Hillary died], but we were building the hospital at the time and I decided that the only thing to do was to carry on and complete the hospital - and it was a jolly good hospital too, I might say. So I really did it by working and working on the things that Louise and I had been working on.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.