Everest Quotes

I don't need to come back to Everest.

— Ueli Steck

I respect Everest very much.

— Anatoli Boukreev

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

— Edmund Hillary

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

— Gary Johnson

“Alone on the summit of Mount Everest.”

— Jacqueline Susann

“Because it's there.”

— George Mallory

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

— Edmund Hillary

Everyone has their own Everest to climb

— Wanda Rutkiewicz

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

— George Leigh Mallory

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

— George Leigh Mallory

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

— Reinhold Messner

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

— Conrad Anker

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

— Edmund Hillary

The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.

— John McPhee

Why climb Mt. Everest? Because it's there.

— Higher Grounds

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.

— Lewis Pugh

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

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep…

— Jacqueline Susann

I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made…

— Brian Blessed

I've been a really big fan of climbing. I really got into it when I watched the show 'Beyond the Limit' about…

— Zdeno Chara

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

— Roger Bannister

“A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”

— Gayle Forman

Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant,…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.

— Pete Dye

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

Climbing Everest is so big now, with so much money involved, and the Sherpas are not stupid. They see this, and they…

— Ueli Steck

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work…

— Anonymous

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

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

The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would…

— Stirling Moss

“Contrary to popular belief, there are peaks higher than Mount Everest. These are the hurdles that lie within each of us. Thank…

— Karan Godara

Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn,…

— Maureen Johnson

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

Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was…

— Richard Engel

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

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

“This need not be taken as an argument for abandoning all future planning whatsoever, but it serves as a warning not to…

— Oliver Burkeman

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

“Their three remaining porters returned to the North Col, leaving Norton and Somervell to contemplate an awesome panorama of peaks silhouetted against…

— Peter Gillman

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures…

— John McPhee