“We didn’t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest.”

—  Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World
Context: We didn’t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we weren’t at all sure whether we wouldn’t drop dead or something of that nature.

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