I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.......
But 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.
- Sir Edmund Hillary, a Pioneering conqueror of Everest, Dies at 88.
(New York Times, January 10, 2008)
