On The Summit Of Everest,

I Started To Become More Active And When I Was At Auckland Grammar I Went For The First Time To The Mountains. I Went To Ruapehu And For The First Time I Saw Snow. I Had Never Seen Snow Before And For 10 Days The Group Of Us Had A Marvellous Time.

I've Always Hated The Danger Part Of Climbing, And It's Great To Come Down Again Because It's Safe.

Despite All I Have Seen And Experiences, I Still Get The Same Thrill Out Of Glimpsing A Tiny Patch Of Snow In A High Mountain Gully And Feel The Same Urge To Climb Toward It.

I Like To Think Of Everest As A Great Mountaineering Challenge, And When You've Got People Just Streaming Up The Mountain - Well, Many Of Them Are Just Climbing It To Get Their Name In The Paper, Really.

[derek] Shackleton Was A Man Who - It's Probably Arrogant To Say It - But He Was A Little Bit Like Me. He Undertook Incredible Dangers And Carried On Over The Sea And Over The Ice And All The Rest Of It. He Was A Remarkable Man.