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Summit Quotes by Edmund Hillary
- On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
- Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest,…
- I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple…
- The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the…
- I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought…
More Summit Quotes
- St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled… — Conrad Black
- I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts… — Daniel Boone
- A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if… — Anatoli Boukreev
- Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. — Paul D. Boyer
- It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice… — Warren Christopher
- The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there… — Yvon Chouinard
- Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. — Pierre Corneille
- Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by… — Maimonides
- The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life — Pope John Paul II
- Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it… — Dag Hammarskjold