My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
Everest is how it is right now. We have to fix ropes up there; we have the commercial expeditions. If you don't… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's… — Dean Karnazes 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
“Twenty-six thousand feet up the cols of Everest, a long way beyond the staying power of plants, pale spiders have been found,… — James Agee 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
I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain -… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Mountaineering helps in developing confidence and when I scaled Mt. Everest, I saw many people connecting with me which inspired me to… — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Lest others should attempt the ascent of this terrible climb and perish, they swore themselves to secrecy (telling only enough people to… — Whipplesnaith Copy Share Image
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are… — Walt Unsworth Copy Share Image
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
People get very excited about very high elements. That's why Mount Everest is so important - it's not the most difficult mountain,… — Cesar Pelli 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
“She was climbing Mount Everest and the air was invigorating and wonderful. Even if every second verged on crisis, this was part… — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
