Top 100 Quotes About Everest
#1. It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.
Erik Weihenmayer
#2. 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.
Dean Karnazes
#3. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.
Roger Bannister
#4. The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.
Roland Smith
#6. I am big and I am strong and I am powerful- a girl of Everest proportions who won't easily be conquered.' - ppg 26
Annabel Pitcher
#7. There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act - a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument.
Jon Krakauer
#8. Climbing Mount Everest is more satisfying than standing at the top; flirting and foreplay are more exciting than having an orgasm; and conducting groundbreaking lab experiments is more interesting than receiving praise and prizes.
Yuval Noah Harari
#9. I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn't mean I have any intention of trying to climb it
Jeaniene Frost
#10. For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
Roland Smith
#11. I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything ...
Reinhold Messner
#12. I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
Edmund Hillary
#13. 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.
George Leigh Mallory
#14. I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
Anatoli Boukreev
#15. No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
Edmund Hillary
#16. When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
Christopher Hitchens
#17. The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you're an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.
Yvon Chouinard
#18. I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.
Anatoli Boukreev
#19. I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#20. Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed.
Jon Krakauer
#21. I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
Sara Paretsky
#22. To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.
Pierre Daninos
#23. Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin. Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses. Taske,
Jon Krakauer
#24. They may have reached Everest, okay, but there is nothing there
Osho
#25. For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.
Ray Anderson
#26. This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.
Jon Krakauer
#27. Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.
Kenneth Kamler
#28. Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
Jon Krakauer
#29. When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?
Jodi Picoult
#30. Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.
Jon Krakauer
#31. I was inspired to write (Life Continues) to tell people dealing with MS or any other illness that if opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay.
Carmen Ambrosio
#32. I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.
Brian Blessed
#33. I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
Junko Tabei
#34. People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.
Paula Cole
#35. The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. And in doing so I was a party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long time.
Jon Krakauer
#36. Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.
Tim Cope
#37. If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?
George Carlin
#38. I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.
Anatoli Boukreev
#39. I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult
Dr. Seuss
#40. The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
Pete Dye
#41. Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
Alex Ferguson
#42. After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
Yuichiro Miura
#43. Everest, son, remember when I told you that asking questions is a sign of weakness?
Jonathan Dunne
#44. Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air ...
Amy Johnson
#45. If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you ... are out there in self-sufficiency.
Reinhold Messner
#46. I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.
Justin Zackham
#47. 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!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.
Jon Krakauer
#50. Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.
Dave Barry
#51. I told you, we haven't had sex! It was just a kiss. Like the Viper was just a car, and Mount
Everest was just a hill.
Linda Howard
#52. The weirdest thing about Tibet is that the most popular beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon. Everywhere, even on the slopes of Everest, cans of Pabst lay alongside the road labeled, 'Established in Milwaukee in 1849'.
Scott Stoll
#53. We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.
Lewis Thomas
#54. 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.
Willi Unsoeld
#55. We cannot scale Mt Everest in 20 minutes, but give us two weeks, and we'll be back with T-shirts for everyone that read, "I climbed Mt. Everest and this lousy T-shirt is all I got.
Matthew Akers
#56. The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.
Jon Krakauer
#57. There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
Ari Fleischer
#58. I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.
Susan Oakey-Baker
#59. Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
Edmund Hillary
#60. There were no aisles, so to get to the empty cot I had to climb over other senators. The first was Ted Kennedy. He was a big man, and at that moment he looked to me like Mount Everest.
George Mitchell
#61. Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
Junko Tabei
#62. If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
Tenzing Norgay
#63. If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
Tenzing Norgay
#64. My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen.
Brian Blessed
#65. Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.
Aaron Huey
#66. It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
Roger Bannister
#67. Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
Harper Lee
#68. People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Margaret Thatcher
#69. I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me
Peter Habeler
#70. Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#71. The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest.
Anna Kendrick
#72. These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage.
Tarquin Hall
#73. I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
Edmund Hillary
#74. We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.
Baltasar Kormakur
#75. If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
Joe Carnahan
#76. I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.
Yuichiro Miura
#77. You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.
Brian Blessed
#78. Actually,standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest.
Jennifer Niven
#79. the only thing you'll find at the summit of mount everest is a divine view, the things that really matter lie far below it
Peak
#80. I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
Christy Turlington
#81. Climbing your personal Everest, do your best to make sure it won't end up being your Calvary.
Sahara Sanders
#82. Sir Edmund Hillary, Everest's first conqueror, once said that the mountains gave him strength. I'd never really understood this until now. But it was intoxicating.
Something deep inside me knew that I could do this.
Bear Grylls
#83. A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
Alan Rickman
#84. There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
Bear Grylls
#85. I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.
Michael Palin
#87. Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you.
Stacy Allison
#88. Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.
Joe Rohde
#89. I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.
Edmund Hillary
#90. I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.
Stephen King
#91. Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.
Lewis Pugh
#92. If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.
Martha Beck
#93. I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
Raha Moharrak
#94. fact, it's just crazy enough to be the kind of thing that actually happens in your family. A regular hiding place isn't good enough for you Froot Loops; you have to use Mount Everest!
Gordon Korman
#95. Trying to get with Six is like deciding to take up mountain climbing and choosing Everest as your first mountain
Pittacus Lore
#96. Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow ... but I'm still growing!
Edmund Hillary
#97. I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.
Gail Sheehy
#98. While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear
Jon Krakauer
#99. 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.
Edmund Hillary
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