“Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.”

As quoted in Great Climbs: A Celebration of World Mountaineering (1994) by Sir Chris Bonington

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