“While standing on top of Everest, I looked across the valley, towards the other great peak, Makalu, and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed… it showed me that, even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything for me, by any means. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Edmund Hillary
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- reference · Secondary source
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Hillary, Edmund. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Edmund Hillary. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary
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