Climbs Quote by Edmund Hillary

“Everest has attracted its share of men like these. Their mountaineering experience varied from none at all to very slight - certainly none of…

— Walt Unsworth

Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.

— Reinhold Messner

The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary…

— Stephen Covey

I've been a really big fan of climbing. I really got into it when I watched the show 'Beyond the Limit' about climbing Mount…

— Zdeno Chara

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many…

— Edmund Hillary

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount…

— Edmund Hillary

I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable, and so…

— Warren G. Harding

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

— Jon Krakauer

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

— Sam Heughan

I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the…

— Jim Wickwire

“If you wanted the respect of the world, you climbed Everest. If you wanted the respect of other mountaineers, you climbed K2.”

— Marc Cameron

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

— Edmund Hillary