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.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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.
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
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
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
I respect Everest very much.
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.
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.
I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
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.
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
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.
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.
Just put one foot in front of the other.
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
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.
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