Climbing Mount Everest Quotes - Page 2

• This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

  Jon Krakauer

  Order, Succeed, Driven

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

  Tom Hornbein

  Men, Climbing, Affair

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• 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

  Peace, Moon, Years

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

  Junko Tabei

  Nature, Travel, Men

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• 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

  Nature, Travel, Mountain

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• I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Mountain, Living My Life, Mt Everest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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