Motivation Is The Single Most Important Factor

While On Top Of Everest, I Looked Across The Valley Towards The Great Peak Makalu And Mentally Worked Out A Route About How It Could Be Climbed. It Showed Me That Even Though I Was Standing On Top Of The World, It Wasn't The End Of Everything. I Was Still Looking Beyond To Other Interesting Challenges.

I Still Think Have This Deep Desire For Our Himalayan Trust - That We Raise The Necessary Funds, That We Do All The Things That The Sherpas Want Us To Do, And I Would Like To See Us Working Together With Them On These Projects. Even Though I'm Old And Decrepit I Still Have This Strong Feeling That I Would Like To Carry These Things Out If It Were Still Possible.

Environmental Problems Are Really Social Problems Anyway. They Begin With People As The Cause And End With People As The Victims

I Was Certainly Seriously Emotionally Affected [ When Louise Hillary And Belinda Hillary Died], But We Were Building The Hospital At The Time And I Decided That The Only Thing To Do Was To Carry On And Complete The Hospital - And It Was A Jolly Good Hospital Too, I Might Say. So I Really Did It By Working And Working On The Things That Louise And I Had Been Working On.

My Mother Really Was The Strength In Our Family. She Would Sort Of Keep Us In Line And I Admired Her Very Much .