I Am A Lucky Man. I Have

[derek] Shackleton Was A Man Who - It's Probably Arrogant To Say It - But He Was A Little Bit Like Me. He Undertook Incredible Dangers And Carried On Over The Sea And Over The Ice And All The Rest Of It. He Was A Remarkable Man.

George Lowe Was The One Who Opened The Mail, And George Started Laughing Uproariously And I Looked Up At Him In Astonishment And Said, "what's So Funny?" And He Said, "you've Been Given A Title", And I Said, "ha, Ha, Big Joke." I Didn't Believe Him But, Sure Enough, In This Letter It Indicated That The Queen Had Given Me A Title.

I Don't Know If I Particularly Want To Be Remembered For Anything. I Personally Do Not Think I'm A Great Gift To The World. I've Been Very Fortunate.

June [hillary] Had Been Doing All These Things - The Himalayas And All The Rest Of It - So We Had Done Things Together For A Long Time, And, Particularly As Far As Our Sherpas Were Concerned, We Had A Very Sound, I Think, Philosophy. So That Made It Very Easy For Us To Agree On What Should Be Done.

Some Day I'm Going To Climb Everest.