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  • Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

    "Edmund Hillary: King of the World" by Paul Stanley Ward, www.nzedge.com. June 02, 2000.
  • I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

    Nature   Travel   Men  
  • The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

  • Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

    Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1923
  • I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start off with a novel right off, or a trilogy, or even a nine-book series. That's like starting in at rock climbing by tackling Mt. Everest. Short stories help you learn your craft.

    Book   Rocks   Climbing  
  • - Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

  • No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

    "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.
  • It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

    "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.
  • Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

    "Protecting the Places We Climb" by Phil Powers, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2013.
  • When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

    Ocean   Moving   Writing  
    "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.
  • Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

  • The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

    Dream   Adventure   Past  
    Sir Edmund Hillary (2013). “High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest”, p.6, Roli Books Private Limited
  • Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.

    Hero   Men   Names  
  • You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

    Nature   Travel   Sight  
  • The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn.

    People   Different   Want  
    Source: bookriot.com
  • I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

    "Sir Edmund Hillary: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.
  • The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

    "Law professor-author Randall Kennedy". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 1, 2011.
  • If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

    John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.127, Macmillan
  • If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

    Humorous   Climbing   Doe  
    George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
  • While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

    Foreword to "Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations" by Clive Gibson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes, 2000.
  • Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

    "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.
  • Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

    Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press
  • Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

    Book   Adventure   Air  
  • Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

    Men   Risk   Everest  
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