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

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• ‟ Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

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• ‟ I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

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• ‟ I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

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• ‟ Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

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