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.
Interpretation
Building strong bonds with others through shared experiences is an extraordinary achievement.
In this quote, Edmund Hillary emphasizes the importance of camaraderie and the strength that comes from shared experiences and challenges. He suggests that the sense of unity and effort involved in forging these bonds is not only significant but also deeply fulfilling, highlighting the joy derived from teamwork and mutual support in overcoming adversities together.
In practice
During a motivational speech about teamwork in the workplace.
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.
But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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