We knocked the bastard off. [on his successful ascent of Mt Everest,
quoted in the London Sunday Times, 21 July 1974]
Better if he had said something natural like, Jesus, here we are.
[Commenting on 'Neil Armstrong''s 1969 message from the moon, "That's one small
step for man, one giant leap for mankind."]
I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses
permitting. [Comment eight days before he reached the South Pole via
an overland route, 5 January 1958]
