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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. -- Edmund Hillary
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. -- Tenzing Norgay
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. -- Margaret Thatcher
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. -- George Leigh Mallory
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest. -- Tenzing Norgay
Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks. -- David Breashears
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. -- Junko Tabei
I respect Everest very much. -- Anatoli Boukreev
Some day I'm going to climb Everest. -- Edmund Hillary
I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit. -- Gary Johnson
The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road. -- Jon Krakauer
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. -- Pete Dye
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book -- Sara Paretsky
I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide. -- Anatoli Boukreev
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there. -- Edmund Hillary
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! -- Aldous Huxley
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream -- Junko Tabei
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself. -- Bear Grylls
You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest. -- Willi Unsoeld
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. -- Edmund Hillary
I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
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. -- Christy Turlington
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. -- Edmund Hillary
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 -- Ari Fleischer
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
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. -- John Frankenheimer
I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business. -- Anatoli Boukreev
I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics. -- Edmund Hillary
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. -- Yuichiro Miura
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.
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
When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly. -- Jon Krakauer
We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual. -- Sara Sheridan
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it. -- Bear Grylls
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. -- 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. -- Raha Moharrak
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. -- Brian Blessed
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. -- Christopher Hitchens
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the 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. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges. -- Edmund Hillary
Everyone has their own Everest to climb -- Wanda Rutkiewicz
It's all bullshit on Everest these days. -- Edmund Hillary
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there. -- George Leigh Mallory
The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone. -- John McPhee
Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like. -- Alex Ferguson
Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack. -- Aaron Huey
I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me -- Peter Habeler
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) -- George Leigh Mallory
Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain. -- Lewis Pugh
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. -- George Leigh Mallory
Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you. -- Edmund Hillary
Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind. -- Lewis Gordon
Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind. -- Lewis Gordon
I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men. -- Tom Hornbein
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. -- Zig Ziglar
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. -- Roger Bannister
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. -- Edmund Hillary
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag. -- Margaret Thatcher
I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth. -- Tenzing Norgay
There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest. -- Conrad Anker
There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart. -- Bear Grylls
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest. -- Gayle Forman
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn't mean I have any intention of trying to climb it -- Jeaniene Frost
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. -- Jon Krakauer
If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side? -- George Carlin
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God. -- Roland Smith
The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest. -- Anna Kendrick
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier. -- Yuichiro Miura
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. -- Jon Krakauer
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest. -- Natalie du Toit
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. -- Roland Smith
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. -- Justin Zackham
Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest? -- Chuck Palahniuk
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest. -- Joe Abercrombie
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. -- Steve Fossett
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . -- Amy Johnson
I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet after that, -- Brian Blessed
You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep. -- Bear Grylls
I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that. -- Brian Blessed
I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here. -- Anatoli Boukreev
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. -- Jacqueline Susann
Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing! -- Edmund Hillary
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. -- Alan Rickman
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
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. -- Tamae Watanabe
We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain. -- Charlie Munger
Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another. -- Chico Xavier
I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
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. -- George R. R. Martin
If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest. -- Martha Beck
I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela. -- Brian Blessed
I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy that conquered it. -- Rhys Darby
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. -- Ari Fleischer
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.... -- Reinhold Messner
Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest. -- Stacy Allison
Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. -- Colin Wilson
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die. -- Jon Krakauer
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. -- Randall Kennedy
I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain. -- Leonard Cohen
I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult -- Dr. Seuss
Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them. -- Heidi Klum
The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you're an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back. -- Yvon Chouinard
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest. -- Martin Rees
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands. -- Sam Heughan
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. -- Edmund Hillary
You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt. -- Jon Krakauer
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) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world. -- Gail Sheehy
I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes. -- Lewis Pugh
My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen. -- Brian Blessed
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm. -- Ray Anderson
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. -- George Leigh Mallory
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't. -- Stirling Moss
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest. -- Lewis Thomas
To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome. -- Pierre Daninos
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? -- Jodi Picoult

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