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 dam… - Edmund Hillary

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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.

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About Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

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Native Name: Edmund Percival Hillary
Alternative Names: Sir Edmund Percival Hillary • Sir Edmund Hillary • Ed Hillary
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