Good Day - Sir Edmund Hillary

I think temporarily at least most of us became almost Hindu in our outlook.

– Sir Ed on the 'Ganga's' effect on the team spiritually

I knew perfectly well that I wasn’t superhuman and that I was extremely ordinary.

– Sir Edmund Hillary on the adulation he received in India

I’ve built up a group of friends [who are] very competent, cheerful, capable of handling most problems that come along, and what perhaps is even more important to me is that I enjoy their company very much indeed. So when I go off an an expedition all I need to do is to call up my friends — and they hastily try to prevent their wives from actually hearing what I’m saying! — and suggest that they come along on a trip and ... away they go.

– Sir Ed on how he gets expeditions moving