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.
I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy —” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.
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