Everest Quotes - Page 7

• Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

  George Leigh Mallory

  Explanation, Mount Everest, Climbs

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• We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God's help, we will climb on to the end.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Dream, Real, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Stronger, Earth, Force

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• '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

  Book, Stories, Firsts

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