I get older I get more cantankerous, but June [Hillary] gets a bit more cantankerous, too.
I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti.
My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.