Tenzing Norgay

“I needed to go... the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.”

“The mountains are our home. They are our kingdom.”

“It has been a long road... From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.”

“If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.”

“I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.”

“We are not heroes. We are just ordinary men who love to climb.”

“To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.”

“When you go to a mountain, you see how small you are.”

“Hillary and I were a team. We climbed together. That's all.”

“The problems of the world are not on the mountains. They are in the cities, in the minds of men.”

“I was not thinking of 'first' or 'second'. I was just trying to get to the top.”

“Better to live a day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep.”

“Without the Sherpas, there would be no climbing in the Himalayas.”

“For the stone from the top for you, I have brought it.”