You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream — Junko Tabei Copy Share Image
I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now,… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I have always been fiery; I go after things. But what I learned from my mother is to step back and actually… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Willi Unsoeld Copy Share Image
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn,… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest.… — Tenzing Norgay Copy Share Image
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God. — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower… — Junko Tabei Copy Share Image
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my… — Lewis Gordon Pugh Copy Share Image
I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is… — Leonard Cohen 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
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He… — Randall Kennedy 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
The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest. — Natalie du Toit Copy Share Image
