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113 Everest quotes by 70 unique authors
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I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different…
— Lewis Gordon Pugh
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Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.
— Lewis Gordon Pugh
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I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
— Edmund Hillary
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought…
— Edmund Hillary
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt.…
— Randall Kennedy
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If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
— Yuichiro Miura
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years,…
— Yuichiro Miura
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You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put…
— Jon Krakauer
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The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.
— Jon Krakauer
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We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way…
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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Why climb Mt. Everest? Because it's there.
— Higher Grounds
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.
— Pete Dye
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