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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. Edmund Hillary
Time No-One Remembers Climbed Mount Mount Everest Who Everest Second
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. Edmund Hillary
You Science Money Mountains Hell Nobody Scientific Climb Climbs Really Used Reasons Raise
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. Edmund Hillary
Beautiful Important Building Too Projects Restore Maintaining Most Schools Dear Been Clinics Friends Helping Medical
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation. Edmund Hillary
You Giving Building Believe Pleasant Peers Everything Dangers About Something Feats Comradeship Sharing Greatest Got Still Up Very Effort Intense Sensation Really Your Company
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better. Edmund Hillary
Finance Change People Money Better Remember First Important Become Local Back Way Area Instance Remember When Maybe Just Them Us Now
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it. Edmund Hillary
Time Too Much Think Thinking Too Spend Fuss Would About Like Make Occur Lot Did Die Dying Much Peacefully
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people. Edmund Hillary
Relationship People Built Climbing Up Close Close Relationship
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides. Edmund Hillary
Good You Summit Guides Liked Particularly Couple Mountaineering Commercialization Really Paying Everest
I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it. Edmund Hillary
Hate Like Just Being Icon
Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were. Edmund Hillary
You Take Advantage Young Find Boring Rush Take Head Advantage Were Years Pioneering Efforts Want Might
I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice. Edmund Hillary
Myself Good Strong Enthusiasm Back Climber Lot Cracking Just Regard Ice
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit. Edmund Hillary
Important Summit Fact Lead Along Most Important Role Up Very Mountaineering Role In Fact Them Many Play
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. Edmund Hillary
Good Think Sensible
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. Edmund Hillary
You Pay Adventure Real
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary. Edmund Hillary
Challenge Down Scared Pretty Scary Part Fell Times Many Everest
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. Edmund Hillary
Relationship Year National Mountains Down Group Every Park Taken National Park Grammar Holiday Skiing Used Actually Started
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. Edmund Hillary
Great Down Danger Hated Part Come Safe Because Always Climbing Again
I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true. Edmund Hillary
Funny Great Extremely Say Bit Absolutely Had True Wives Sounds Lucky Two
A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans. Enric Sala
Live Other Studies How Scientist Underwater Interact Who Many Each Species Humans Marine
I have touched coral, and it feels hard like a rock, with a little slimy thing on top of it. But it is better to not touch coral, to prevent damaging it. Enric Sala
Better Top Touch Touched Prevent Feels Like Rock Little Hard Thing Coral Damaging
The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing. Enric Sala
Ocean Everybody Nobody Checking Like Because Makes Account Where Happening Deposit
When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero. Enric Sala
Me People Hero Become Other Kid All-Time Inspired He Him Still Underwater Person Jacques After Explorer Who Many
Sometimes I think I don't need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate! Enric Sala
Sometimes Think Like Because Am Very Fortunate Vacation Need
The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change. Enric Sala
Health Change Will Ocean Temperature Impacts Take Allow Development Like Global Know Climate Climate Change Integrate Trying Going Different Us Coastal Including Thermometer Species Level
I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests. Enric Sala
Amazing Other Waters Addition Dream See Arctic Diving Clear Like Cathedrals Crystal Because Antarctica Been Forests Where Ice Places Two
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. George Vancouver
Natural Water Ocean Changed Bay Some Through Coloured River Falling North Probable Low Land Sea Now Streams Consequence
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