With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.
Edmund HillaryMany people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
Edmund HillaryJune [Hillary] had been doing all these things - the Himalayas and all the rest of it - so we had done things together for a long time, and, particularly as far as our Sherpas were concerned, we had a very sound, I think, philosophy. So that made it very easy for us to agree on what should be done.
Edmund Hillary