I Think That A Good Mountaineer Is

I Hate Being Called An 'icon.' I Just Don't Like It. That's All There Is To It.

No One Remembers Who Climbed Mount Everest The Second Time.

When You Go To The Mountains, You See Them And You Admire Them. In A Sense, They Give You A Challenge, And You Try To Express That Challenge By Climbing Them.

In Those Days We Were Punished Very Frequently And I Felt That It Was Often Unjust, And So I Would Resist The Desire To Agree With Many, Many Things. So I Used To Get Beaten Quite Frequently And I More Or Less Accepted It As Part Of Life.

I'm Past Carrying Out Some Of The Wishes That I Would Have Wanted To Do Before, But I Still Dream About What I Would Like To Do If I Was Able To Do So.