I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

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

Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you.

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

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.

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

Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.