Climbing mount everest Quote by George Leigh Mallory

The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope,…

— Anonymous

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were…

— Petrarch

“The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard that it…

— John McPhee

The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the…

— Cormac McCarthy

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it…

— Edmund Hillary

“Everest itself was the only mountain which we could see without turning our gaze downwards…”

— Peter Gillman

Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west…

— Ed Viesturs

The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human…

— Eduard Suess

When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top…

— Roz Savage

“What was the human world like in the eyes of the mountains? Perhaps just something they saw on a leisurely afternoon. First, a few…

— Liu Cixin

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

— Annie Dillard

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was…

— Ernest Shackleton