Everest Quotes

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. (Abdul Kalam)
While standing on top of Everest, I looked across the valley, towards the other great peak, Makalu, and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed... it showed me that, even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything for me, by any means. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges. View quote
Edmund Hillary
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so. View quote
David Attenborough
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared. View quote
George Mallory
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 give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die. View quote
Edmund Hillary
Some day I'm going to climb Everest. View quote
Edmund Hillary
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
It wasn't a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you'd have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid) Yeah, maybe next time I'll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself. View quote
Bear Grylls
When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top. View quote
Jacqueline Susann
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables. (Dean Karnazes)
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. View quote
Ari Fleischer
You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest. View quote
Brian Blessed
I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do. View quote
Christy Turlington
There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world. View quote
John Frankenheimer
I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest. View quote
Justin Zackham
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book. View quote
Sara Paretsky
I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again. View quote
Tamae Watanabe
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest. View quote
Tenzing Norgay
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. View quote
Tenzing Norgay
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 totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well. (Yuichiro Miura)
Dedicated to eccentrics, madmen, residents of the Far North - heroes of Russian anecdotes, as well as to all those who died while climbing Mount Everest. View quote
Viktor Pinchuk
Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there. View quote
Harper Lee
I've always ranked the Brahms as the Mount Everest of all concertos -- and the Beethoven, of course. View quote
Sarah Chang
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next? View quote
Jodi Picoult