Everest Quotes

• 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
  • Career
  • Strength
  • Everest

• No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Time
  • Everest
  • Mount Everest

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• 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
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• 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
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual
  • Climbing

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

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

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Everest
  • Forecast

• 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
  • Moments
  • Games
  • Everest

• I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Quit
  • Everest
  • Mount Everest

• I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Pretty
  • Challenge
  • Scary

• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Spiritual
  • Growth
  • Oxygen

• It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Teaching
  • Climbing
  • Buddy

• I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Climbs

• Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • Reality
  • Everest
  • Seekers

• 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
  • Mountain
  • Everest
  • Sights

• Everyone has their own Everest to climb

  

  Wanda Rutkiewicz
  • Climbs
  • Everest

• 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. He actually went on an expedition after the Everest climb to look for the Yeti, and they didn't find it, but they found a footprint and some hair samples that turned out to be a goat or something.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Guy
  • Fans
  • Climbs

• Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.

  

  David Breashears
  • Forget
  • Rocks
  • Everest

• 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 as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.

  

  Ed Viesturs
  • Mountain
  • Shadow
  • Sun Rose

• Morally, however, we had had absolutely no choice but to abort our summit try to help Thor and Chantal get down the mountain. That’s why I find it so hard to stomach all the accounts in recent years—especially on Everest—of climbers ignoring others in trouble for fear a rescue effort would sabotage their own summit bids.

  

  Ed Viesturs
  • Trouble
  • Mountain
  • Sabotage

• By now, a significant portion of the whole Sherpa economy depends on the spring and fall seasons on Everest.

  

  Ed Viesturs
  • Spring
  • Economy
  • Seasons

• 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
  • Guy
  • Fans
  • Bigs