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“I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.”

— Edmund Hillary

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Wikiquote: Edmund Hillary
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Hillary, Edmund. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Edmund Hillary. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary

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