"I am hell-bent for the South Pole — God willing and crevasses permitting."
— Edmund Hillary

January 1, 1970

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Comment (28 December 1957) eight days before he reached the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, as quoted in news summaries (5 January 1958)