Everest Quotes - Page 5

• Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Alex, Slippers

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

  Conrad Anker

  Risk, Climbs, Gauntlet

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• 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

  Home, Climbing, Titles

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• Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.

  G. Harry Stine

  Future, Adventure, Years

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• 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

  Moon, Night, Feet

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• 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

  Climbing, Risk, Himalayas

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• There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Heart, Climbing

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• You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

  Chris McCormack

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• 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

  Climbing, Achievement, Example

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• I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Moving, Successful

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

  Edmund Hillary

  Climbing, People, Disaster

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• 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

  Couple, Guides, Mountaineering

  "Sir Edmund Hillary: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Thinking, Climbing, Names

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• 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

  Thinking, China, Nepal

  "TalkAsia" with Kyung Lah, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2012.

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• 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

  Wall, Pyramids, Obsessed

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• 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

  Men, Soul, Gentleman

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• Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Journey, Thinking, Climbing

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• 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

  Adventure, Needs, Earth

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.

  Omar Samra

  Country, Lying, Pride

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• Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

  Aaron Huey

  Cracks

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• Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you.

  Stacy Allison

  Believe, Trying, Mountain

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• The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact it should be seen at the very center of the ecological crisis, as the cloud-covered Everest of which the more immediate, visible kinds of harm to the environment are the mere foothills.

  Jonathan Schell

  Ecosystems, Clouds, Environmental

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.111, Stanford University Press

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• I have always been fiery; I go after things. But what I learned from my mother is to step back and actually experience things that are happening. So for me, it's about meditating. My Everest is to have that become a real part of my life.

  Kate Hudson

  Mother, Real, Steps

  "Glamour's April 2013 Cover Star, Kate Hudson, Bares All: "I Don't Keep Any Secrets"". Interview with Mira Nair, www.glamour.com. March 5, 2013.

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• 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, Kids, Rocks

  Source: www.summitdaily.com

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• 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

  Science, Feet, Survival

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