Whats the proportion of skill, planning, leadership and luck?
Sir Edmund Hillary: You need all those things of course. You certainly need planning and you certainly need a degree of skill and fitness, and there’s no question at all that you need a little bit of luck. People often say you make your own luck, and I think probably 90 percent of the luck is self-created, but there is that ten percent. You’ve got to have things right at the right time. If you’re heading for the summit, you’ve got to have a reasonable day for it. And if the weather doesn’t treat you right, nobody’s going to get there. I guess you’d call that luck. But if you plan things, maybe you’re organized so you can wait for another day and put in your push to the summit. But I do believe that a little bit of luck is a good thing to have. Have there been many situations where you’ve been criticized, and if so, what did you do with that experience of criticism? Sir Edmund Hillary: There have certainly been occasions in which I’ve been criticized. When we were doing our Antarctic tr
