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Everest Quotes by Jon Krakauer
- But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
- Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an…
- Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
- This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but…
- 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…
- The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.
More Everest Quotes
- The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye
- Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going… — Edmund Hillary
- Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years,… — Rajneesh
- If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side? — George Carlin
- We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make… — Lewis Thomas
- Meditation is the technique of inner conquest - and that is the real challenge. Those who have any guts should accept the… — Rajneesh
- Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — Abdul Kalam
- The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 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
- I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. — Junko Tabei
- Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream — Junko Tabei
- When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most… — Kim Stanley