Edmund Hillary quote: "I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides."

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useles...
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny ...
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for ...
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worke...
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there'...
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevas...
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta...
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all fea...
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If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this moun...
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It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinar...
EDMUND HILLARY

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and wi...
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When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challeng...
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step ...
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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important thi...
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My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for...
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I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot ...
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I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan clim...
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and ther...
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt ...
EDMUND HILLARY

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordina...
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Well, we knocked the bastard off!
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, ...
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I&#...
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly im...
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did ...
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We knocked the bastard off.
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You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordi...
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them ...
EDMUND HILLARY

Well, we knocked the bast*rd off!
EDMUND HILLARY

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
EDMUND HILLARY

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just ...
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As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the p...
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I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.
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Better if he had said something natural like, "Jesus, here we are."
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to ...
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You dont have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete. You can be just an ordina...
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no...
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really h...
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to...
EDMUND HILLARY

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it&...
EDMUND HILLARY

I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want...
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You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
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My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bon...
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One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of wea...
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When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface...
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I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can sa...
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I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
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The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a ...
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My overall goal is to level the playing field for American businesses.
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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contra...
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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or ...
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Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
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I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relation...
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. I...
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If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
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If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, y...
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People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, t...
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I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going int...
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Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal l...
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Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families wh...
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Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the int...
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What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without...
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It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.
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To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
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I think I'm chronically exhausted.
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Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just ...
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The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people...
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I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-pay...
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I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
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The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the...
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There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, ricks...
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In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Wel...
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I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree wi...
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I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair c...
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In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
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My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and ...
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Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
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It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gather...
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We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, a...
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The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world...
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In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle...
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I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and d...
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You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I ...
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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
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I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being Preside...
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We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religion...
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I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one grou...
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I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of the...
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And I believe we should strengthen unions which have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It...
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The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we sho...
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No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next day...
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When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.
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American politics is always an open competition.
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I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents ...
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Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.
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You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear...
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
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The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to beco...
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Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewha...
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Women standing up for each other is critically important.
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Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
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You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the Ame...
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You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you&...
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On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
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It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
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We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.
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You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
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I think there should be an analysis of what happened. The time to do that is after some time passes,
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[Bush and members of Congress on Tuesday promised at least three investigations into the sluggish re...
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any other healthcare providers or other entities.
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At a time when many New York small businesses are indeed still recovering from the disruptions cause...
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say you are going to run in 2008!
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all of our eggs in one basket.
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out of sight, out of mind.
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I am worried that it seems inconsistent and unsustainable for the president to be asking for large t...
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It is just a great pleasure to be here as a New Yorker for St. Patrick's Day,
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[President Clinton was more circumspect.] I think we ought to just wait and see what they do, ... On...
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I think we sort of have lost track of the fact this is a government that has to be accountable to th...
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I believe in a zone of privacy.
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Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and ...
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[The president promised to work to eliminate the special education funding provision.] The Senate .....
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give those heathen a little taste of hell.
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Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.
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Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.
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The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we sho...
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You have to test your ideas in a public forum.
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In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the no...
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I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking,
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Flint has worked hard against tough odds to bring this city back, to prepare for a new century, ... ...
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We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the Europea...
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People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
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The most important questions for anybody thinking of running for president are not 'Will you run...
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When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, an...
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A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat ...
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But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration ref...
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I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and eq...
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My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of L...
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

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