Once I've Decided To Do Something, I

I Still Had The Same Affection For New Zealand As I've Always Had. Didn't Change At All.

June [hillary] Had Been Doing All These Things - The Himalayas And All The Rest Of It - So We Had Done Things Together For A Long Time, And, Particularly As Far As Our Sherpas Were Concerned, We Had A Very Sound, I Think, Philosophy. So That Made It Very Easy For Us To Agree On What Should Be Done.

I Think Global Warming Is A Very Real Problem For Our World. I've Seen The Changes That Have Taken Place In The Antarctic, In The Himalayas, Where The Natural Ice Has Sort Of Faded Away, And There's No Doubt In My Mind That We're Living In A Strange World, A World Which Is Not Easy To Understand Or Handle, But There's Nothing You Can Do About, You Just Have To Live Your Life As Best You Can.

Motivation Is The Single Most Important Factor In Any Sort Of Success.

We Shared A Philosophy Together [with June Hillary]. We Believed Very Strongly In The Welfare Of Helping Other People, Particularly The Third World People.