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It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

I respect Everest very much.

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.