There are lots and lots of challenges that I wished - at the time - that I had done.There are lots of occasions where there were exciting things to be done but for some reason or another it was physically impossible for us to do them. I still wouldn't mind if I was able to go down into this most impressive valley in the Antarctic, but of course those things are beyond me now.

I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all.

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

I get older I get more cantankerous, but June [Hillary] gets a bit more cantankerous, too.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.