Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream — Junko Tabei
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag. — Margaret Thatcher
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. — Junko Tabei
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
The 14 8,000 meter peaks in six months project was something nobody could imagine was ever possible. It's tough just to climb one 8,000-meter peak, let alone 14 in such a short period of time. — Nirmal Purja
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
Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports. — Nirmal Purja
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. — Abdul Kalam
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
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. — Edmund Hillary
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti. — Joe Rohde
I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth. — Tenzing Norgay
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. — Edmund Hillary
Short Mount Everest Quotes
You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself. — Jim Whittaker
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. — John Wanamaker
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest. — Tenzing Norgay
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake
Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain. — Nirmal Purja
There is no mountain anywhere everyman ignorance is his own mountain — David Oyedepo
The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist. — Rabindranath Tagore
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. — John Muir
Climb mountains to see lowlands. — Chinese Proverbs
The mountain cannot be conquered by words, only by action and effort. — Nirmal Purja
Mount Everest Image Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Why Climb Everest Quotes
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) — George Leigh Mallory
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. — John F. Kennedy
If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side? — George Carlin
Climbing Mount Everest Quotes
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 have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life. — Tenzing Norgay
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
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous. — Reinhold Messner
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for. — George Leigh Mallory
The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. — George Leigh Mallory
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
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
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
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests. — James E. Faust
Mt Everest Quotes
If you compare the number of people who climb Everest to the number who climb Mt. Blanc, it is like only 2 percent. But people don't talk about how crowded Mt. Blanc is. — Nirmal Purja
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
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
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
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
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
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest. — Norman Vincent Peale
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
The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everest Quotes
I have my company, Elite Himalayan Adventures, which provides a platform for those who seek to push their limits on extreme adventures, whether that be Everest and Lhotse in Nepal, or K2 and Broad Peak in Pakistan. — Nirmal Purja
Saying I’m in it for the long run is a bit like standing at the base of Mount Everest, pointing to the top, and saying, That’s where I’m heading. Well, that’s nice. Now comes the test. — Morgan Housel
When you’re depressed it’s like those people up on the top of Everest who don’t have enough oxygen. Just basic stuff like zipping up your jacket is like doing f*cking squats! — Duncan Trussell
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. — Tenzing Norgay
I disagree with it, but people come to Everest carrying a huge financial burden. Not only that, but they have spent more than two months and a lot of effort to be ready. That's why everybody rushes for the top. — Nirmal Purja
When you say you are from Nepal, people always ask you if you've seen Everest. And I had to say no. I felt like I had to go and do this, just for my sanity. — Gary Brecka
I have to push my limits to the max. Sitting tight, waiting it out and living in the past, has never been my thing. I want to be at the world’s highest point again, knowing it might slip out from underneath me at any moment. Because that is the only way to live. — Nirmal Purja
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye
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
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency. — Reinhold Messner
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
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
I was on NPR's All Things Considered yesterday. The question was, 'You're on the torture rack, they're going to kill you, who are you going to vote for? Mitt Romney, or Barack Obama? I said, 'Look, I've climbed Mount Everest. I know how to do what it takes. Take this to the bank: I would rather die.' — Gary Johnson
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
Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there. — Ed Viesturs
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! — Aldous Huxley
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. — Roger Bannister
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
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
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. — Stephen King
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
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 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
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
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.
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. — George Leigh Mallory
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. — Zig Ziglar
Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can walk on the ground by yourself, but if you want to climb Mount Everest, you need a guide. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone. — John McPhee
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
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
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
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