Altitude Quote by Jon Krakauer

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

— Edmund Hillary

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm…

— Yuichiro Miura

Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain...…

— Chris Darwin

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

— John C. Maxwell

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

— Edmund Hillary

People with success are less able to cope because you're used to being on Mount Everest and when it's gone, what do you do?

— Ricky Hatton

If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

— Tenzing Norgay

Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.

— Me

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

— Zig Ziglar

The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to…

— David Breashears

I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't…

— Edmund Hillary