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.
...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
A chilly breeze that seemed to emanate from the heart of the forest lifted the hair at Harry's brow. He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would have to be his decision. "You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end," said James.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
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