I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. — Junko Tabei Copy Share Image
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
“These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief’s rear passage.” — Tarquin Hall Copy Share Image
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I always wanted to try Mt. Everest since I was a kid. I never thought I would be able to do anything… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
“Mount Everest is about as tall as a mountain on Earth can grow before the lower rock layers succumb to their own… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Climb Mount Everest with a gorilla on your back and you will understand the impact waste has on your processes” — Jay Hodge Copy Share Image
“Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“An eighty-year-old man has managed to climb Mount Everest. I have enough trouble stepping up on the curb. It isn’t fair.” — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
“Because it's there. -George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He… — Stephen Bezruchka Copy Share Image
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“...I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Their three remaining porters returned to the North Col, leaving Norton and Somervell to contemplate an awesome panorama of peaks silhouetted against… — Peter Gillman Copy Share Image
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Dreams, in their essence, include risk. This risk could be physical danger (often true in climbing big mountains like Everest), or it… — Adrian Ballinger Copy Share Image
Going to space was a moment that people think was my Mount Everest, but it's not. I have so many Mount Everests.… — Roberta Bondar Copy Share Image
Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“This need not be taken as an argument for abandoning all future planning whatsoever, but it serves as a warning not to… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest. — Conrad Anker Copy Share Image
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
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