Built Quote by Edmund Hillary Download Open image “When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.” — Edmund Hillary ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Climbing Close Close relationship People Relationship Up
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Climbing Everest is so big now, with so much money involved, and the Sherpas are not stupid. They see this, and they want to… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things. — Fred Nicole Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers, the sort… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he was strong,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image