Tenzing Norgay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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