• When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

    Edmund Hillary: When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
    "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.