Everest Quotes - page 3

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary. (Ed Begley, Jr.)
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. View quote
Alan Huffman
I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me. View quote
Raha Moharrak
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first. View quote
Randall Kennedy
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition. View quote
Steve Fossett
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier. View quote
Yuichiro Miura
When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible. View quote
Yuichiro Miura
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting. View quote
Yuichiro Miura
Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it. View quote
George Will
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. View quote
John McPhee
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. (John McPhee)
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series. View quote
George R. R. Martin
I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong. View quote
Michael Palin
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. View quote
Roger Bannister
I didn't worry about getting Tenzing to take a photograph of me - as far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how. View quote
Edmund Hillary
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. View quote
Edmund Hillary
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides. View quote
Edmund Hillary
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there. View quote
Edmund Hillary
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. View quote
Edmund Hillary
It was too late to take risks now. I asked Tenzing to belay me strongly, and I started cutting a cautious line of steps up the ridge. Peering from side to side and thrusting with my ice axe, I tried to discover a possible cornice, but everything seemed solid and firm. I waved Tenzing up to me. A few more whacks of the ice–ax, a few very weary steps, and we were on the summit of Everest. View quote
Edmund Hillary
We didn't know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. (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 Everest, I've been called a great adventurer. View quote
Edmund Hillary
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really. View quote
Edmund Hillary
I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit. View quote
Gary Johnson
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. View quote
Zig Ziglar