"Having just paid our respects to the highest mountain in the world, I then had no choice but to urinate on it."
— Edmund Hillary

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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View from the Summit Simon and Schuster (2000) pp 15-16 [orig pub 1999]. Also (slightly misquoted) in Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer Aurum Press (2012) p 22 ed. Harry de Quetteville.