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
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would… — Stirling Moss Copy Share Image
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day.… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“Everest itself was the only mountain which we could see without turning our gaze downwards…” — Peter Gillman Copy Share Image
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man,… — Yuichiro Miura Copy Share Image
Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great… — Omar Samra 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
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men. — Tom Hornbein Copy Share Image
“Everest attempt at sixty-two, three weeks after undergoing surgery for kidney cancer, marathon des Sables six months after it was amputated fingers… — Gérard Bourrat Copy Share Image
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in… — Chris McCormack 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
Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of. — Kenneth Kamler Copy Share Image
The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a… — Pierre Daninos Copy Share Image
I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling,… — Yuichiro Miura Copy Share Image
“On June 1 George told Ruth it would have been 'unbearable' to miss the final attempt. His frostbitten fingers might suffer further… — Peter Gillman Copy Share Image
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
