Mount Everest, You Beat Me The First

I Was Incredibly Stubborn. I Mean, I Believe That My Father Was Frequently In The Right, But I Would Never Admit It, And So We Did Have A Few Set-tos On Various Topics; But On The Whole As I Got Older And My Father Got More Mature We Got Along Reasonably Well.

I Was Definitely Seriously Affected [with Wifw And Daughter Deaths], No Question, But I Learnt To Devote Myself To The Things That We'd Been Doing For Years And Years And Slowly The Pain Drifted Away.

I've Often Thought About That And The Only Suitable Member To Join Me On That Climb [to Everest] Was George Lowe: He Was Strong, A Good Man On A Mountain, With A Great Sense Of Humour, And I Liked That. I Think George And I Could've Done That Together ... I've Probably Never Told George That.

I Had A Very Strong Desire To Carry Out Adventures, But In Those Early Days I Didn't Actually Do Any. I Just Dreamt About It.

You Don't Have To Be A Hero To Accomplish Great Things---to Compete. You Can Just Be An Ordinary Chap, Sufficiently Motivated To Reach Challenging Goals.