Ed Viesturs Quotes

#1. Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there ...

Ed Viesturs

#2. Your morality isn't the only morality in the world. Just because it's yours doesn't mean it's right.

Kendare Blake

#3. Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.

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#4. The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

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#5. Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

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#6. On the edge of timelessness, hand in hand with you, a sea of flowers caressed.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. There are no short cuts to the top.

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#8. There was musuc in me, but in this post-Cataclysm world, that didn't matter very much.

Jodi Meadows

#9. VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII.

Charles Dickens

#10. I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.

Ed Viesturs

#11. If you're willing to give your life to defend my rights, you can have sex with a pie and I will heat it up for you.

Wil Anderson

#12. The summit is just a halfway point.

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#13. K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

Ed Viesturs

#14. Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

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#15. Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. When we're more interested in telling people what to do than in listening to what they are presently doing, we are off balance.

John C. Maxwell

#17. I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

Ed Viesturs

#18. I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!

David Vitter

#19. Digital communication is such a problem sometimes.

John Green