I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“In bed, I could climb in, if you ever rest. Then I could mount you like Everest.” — Jarod Kintz 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
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. — George Leigh Mallory 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
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
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
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is… — Margaret Thatcher 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
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I was on NPR's All Things Considered yesterday. The question was, 'You're on the torture rack, they're going to kill you, who… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
If you compare the number of people who climb Everest to the number who climb Mt. Blanc, it is like only 2… — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a… — Lewis Pugh Copy Share Image
“I suppose we go to Mount Everest, granted the opportunity, because-in a word-we can't help it.' George had written. 'Or, to state… — Peter Gillman Copy Share Image
Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky;… — Salman Rushdie 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
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
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
“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
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there. — Edmund Hillary 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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