Frases de Edmund Hillary

Edmund Percival Hillary KG, ONZ, KBE , fue un alpinista, explorador y filántropo neozelandés. El 29 de mayo de 1953, Hillary y el sherpa nepalí Tenzing Norgay se convirtieron en los primeros montañeros que lograron alcanzar con éxito la cima del monte Everest, el más alto del mundo. Formaban parte de la novena expedición británica al Everest.

Hillary se interesó por el alpinismo cuando estudiaba secundaria y realizó su primer ascenso importante en 1939 haciendo cima en el monte Ollivier, en su Nueva Zelanda natal. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial sirvió en la Real Fuerza Aérea de Nueva Zelanda como piloto de altura. Antes de la expedición al Everest en 1953, Hillary fue parte de una expedición de reconocimiento a la montaña en 1951, así como de un infructuoso intento de coronar el Cho Oyu en 1952. Años después, en 1958, alcanzó el Polo sur como miembro de la Expedición Trans-Antártica de la Commonwealth y en 1985 llegó al Polo norte en una aventura en la que también estuvo el astronauta Neil Armstrong, primer hombre en pisar la Luna.[1]​ Se convirtió así en la primera persona en estar en ambos polos y en la cima de la montaña más alta.

Después de ascender el Everest, Hillary dedicó gran parte de su vida a ayudar al pueblo sherpa de Nepal a través de la organización Himalayan Trust, fundada por él y responsable de la construcción de varios hospitales y escuelas en el país. Desde 1985 hasta 1988 actuó como Alto Comisionado de Nueva Zelanda para India y Bangladés y simultáneamente como embajador de su país en Nepal. Hillary recibió numerosos honores, como la Orden de la Jarretera en 1995. A su muerte en 2008, se le dedicó un funeral de estado. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. julio 1919 – 11. enero 2008
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“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on.”

Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World
Contexto: The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

“It was too late to take risks now. I asked Tenzing to belay me strongly, and I started cutting a cautious line of steps up the ridge. Peering from side to side and thrusting with my ice axe, I tried to discover a possible cornice, but everything seemed solid and firm. I waved Tenzing up to me. A few more whacks of the ice–ax, a few very weary steps, and we were on the summit of Everest.”

"Adventure's End" in The Norton Book of Sports (1992) edited by George Plimpton, p. 85
Contexto: It was too late to take risks now. I asked Tenzing to belay me strongly, and I started cutting a cautious line of steps up the ridge. Peering from side to side and thrusting with my ice axe, I tried to discover a possible cornice, but everything seemed solid and firm. I waved Tenzing up to me. A few more whacks of the ice–ax, a few very weary steps, and we were on the summit of Everest.
It was 11:30 AM. My first sensation was one of relief — relief that the long grind was over, that the summit had been reached before our oxygen supplies had dropped to a critical level; and relief that in the end the mountain had been kind to us in having a pleasantly rounded cone for its summit instead of a fearsome and unapproachable cornice. But mixed with the relief was a vague sense of astonishment that I should have been the lucky one to attain the ambition of so many brave and determined climbers. I seemed difficult to grasp that we'd got there. I was too tired and too conscious of the long way down to safety really to feel any great elation. But as the fact of our success thrust itself more clearly into my mind, I felt a quiet glow of satisfaction spread through my body — a satisfaction less vociferous but more powerful than I had ever felt on a mountain top before. I turned and looked at Tenzing. Even beneath his oxygen mask and the icicles hanging form his hair, I could see his infectious grin of sheer delight. I held out my hand, and in silence we shook in good Anglo-Saxon fashion. But this was not enough for Tenzing, and impulsively he threw his arm around my shoulders and we thumped each other on the back in mutual congratulations.

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

Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.
Disputed

“I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe … But there is something about building up a comradeship — that I still believe is the greatest of all feats — and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.”

Statement of 1977 as quoted in "Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88" in The New York Times (online edition) (10 January 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/asia/11cnd-hillary.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all

“I didn't worry about getting Tenzing to take a photograph of me — as far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.”

On the photograph of Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay at the summit of Everest, in "Adventure's End" in The Norton Book of Sports (1992) edited by George Plimpton, p. 86
Contexto: Tenzing had been waiting patiently, but now, at my request, he unfurled the flags wrapped around his ice–axe and standing at the summit, held them above his head. Clad in all his bulky equipment and with the flags flapping furiously in the wind, he made a dramatic picture, and the thought drifted through my mind that this photograph should be a good one if it came out at all. I didn't worry about getting Tenzing to take a photograph of me — as far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.

“We didn’t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest.”

Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World
Contexto: We didn’t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we weren’t at all sure whether we wouldn’t drop dead or something of that nature.

“On my expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die. It simply would not have happened.”

As quoted in The Tribune (India) (29 May 2006) http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060529/world.htm
Contexto: On my expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die. It simply would not have happened. It would have been a disaster from our point of view. There have been a number of occasions when people have been neglected and left to die and I don’t regard this as a correct philosophy. I am absolutely certain that if any member of our expedition all those years ago had been in that situation we would have made every effort.

“I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.”

As quoted in "Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering Conquerer of Everest, Dies at 88" in The New York Times (online edition) (10 January 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/asia/11cnd-hillary.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all

“Better if he had said something natural like, "Jesus, here we are."”

On Neil Armstrong’s famous first words on stepping on the surface of the moon, "That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The Sunday Times [London] (21 July 1974)

“Some day I’m going to climb Everest.”

Statement to a friend just before World War II.
Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World

“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”

As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 5

“Well, we knocked the bastard off!”

Hillary's comment to George Lowe, after his successful ascent of Mt Everest, as he and Tenzing Norgay were descending from the summit. (29 May 1953); as recounted in Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (1975) Ch. 10; also recounted as "Well George, we’ve knocked the bastard off." as quoted by Jan Morris in "Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay" for TIME magazine (14 June 1999) http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/hillary_norgay01.html

“I am hell-bent for the South Pole — God willing and crevasses permitting.”

Comment (28 December 1957) eight days before he reached the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, as quoted in news summaries (5 January 1958)

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet and in several Books (e.g. That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom (2003) by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, p. 20), this appears to have originated from George Mallory. Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/08/18/conquer/

Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Edmund Hillary / Disputed

“I became a Hindu. I was very close to the Hindu ethic. It was a great spiritual experience. ... I believe a man can make his own destiny through his work and effort.”

Cited in Pioneer, 9/11/1990. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.

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