Some Day I'm Going To

On The Summit Of Everest, I Had A Feeling Of Great Satisfaction To Be First There.

We Had So Much In Common [with June Hillary] That We Just Carried On With Life As We Had Been Doing. It Wasn't Easy, But It Was - I Realise Now That It Was The Only Thing To Do.

My Mother Was A Schoolteacher And Very Keen That I Go To A City School, So Although It Was Fairly Impoverished Times, I Traveled Every Day To The Auckland Grammar School.

You Don't Have To Be A Hero To Accomplish Great Things---to Compete. You Can Just Be An Ordinary Chap, Sufficiently Motivated To Reach Challenging Goals.

I Always Refused To Give In If There Was Some Argument With My Father. Whether It Was True Or Not, I Refused To Admit It And So Often I Would - Well, Tell Lies, Perhaps. I Would Either Do That Or Change The Story. Particularly If I Felt That My Father Was Being Unjust, Then I Was Very Strongly Motivated To Not Accept His Ruling.