It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

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

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

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

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.