- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
“I told you, we haven't had sex! It was just a kiss." Like the Viper was just a car, and Mount Everest… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Climb Mount Everest with a gorilla on your back and you will understand the impact waste has on your processes” — Jay Hodge 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
People with success are less able to cope because you're used to being on Mount Everest and when it's gone, what do… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. — Junko Tabei Copy Share Image
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye Copy Share Image
“Food for thought: Every dead body on Mount Everest was once a highly motivated person. Stay lazy my friends. It may save… — Oliver Markus Malloy 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
“At Tom's back, receding from view, lay State Street's Victorian brick facades, where lobbyists and trade associations housed their offices, like a… — Joan Quigley Copy Share Image
I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to.… — Dr. Seuss 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
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want… — John F. Kennedy 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
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make… — Lewis Thomas 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
“For a planet that’s roughly a third the size of Earth, Martian geology is extreme. Olympus Mons makes Mount Everest look like… — Peter Cawdron 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
“How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things.… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Finding meaning in global mass phenomena can be difficult because the phenomena themselves are invisible, spread across the earth in millions of… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Birds have nests Even the ants too Cows live in a pen Even the hogs do Dogs have their kennels And the… — Maisie Aletha Smikle Copy Share Image
“Buddhist monks cremated the remains of Sherpa guides who were buried in the deadliest avalanche to hit Mount Everest, a disaster that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Master is not trapped in opposites. His this is also a that. He sees that life becomes death and death becomes… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Most people would not attempt to climb Mount Everest on their own. Typically, climbers will look toward Sherpas, who have served as… — Christopher Abts Copy Share Image
“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no… — George Mallory Copy Share Image
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
