Everest Quotes - Page 7

• Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

  Jon Krakauer

  Reality, Hopeless Romantic, Publicity

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Mean, Science, Air

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Kameshwar C. Wali (2001). “A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary”, p.1286, World Scientific

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• A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

  Gayle Forman

  Twenties, Four, Might

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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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