Mt Everest Quotes

• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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• 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

  Interesting, Challenges, Valleys

  Foreword to "Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations" by Clive Gibson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes, 2000.

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• Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

  Junko Tabei

  Motivational, Perseverance, Nature

  "Protecting the Places We Climb" by Phil Powers, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2013.

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• If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Climbing, Doe

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Men, Risk, Everest

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• Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Everest, Mount Everest, Climbs

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1923

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• 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

  Nature, Travel, Sight

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

  Tenzing Norgay

  Mountain, Living My Life, Climbing Mount Everest

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

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• The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

  Edmund Hillary

  Dream, Adventure, Past

  Sir Edmund Hillary (2013). “High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest”, p.6, Roli Books Private Limited

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• Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Travel, Climbing

  "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.

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• No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

  Edmund Hillary

  Remember, Climbing Mount Everest, Everest

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• 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

  Dwarves, Somewhere Else, Giants

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• Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

  Edmund Hillary

  Everest, Climbs

  "Edmund Hillary: King of the World" by Paul Stanley Ward, www.nzedge.com. June 02, 2000.

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• 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

  Motivational, Writing, Marine

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.127, Macmillan

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• 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

  People, Different, Want

  Source: bookriot.com

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• Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

  Abdul Kalam

  Strength, Young Generation, Climbing

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

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• 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

  Climbing, Perspective, Trying

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• Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.

  Edmund Hillary

  Hero, Men, Names

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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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• I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start off with a novel right off, or a trilogy, or even a nine-book series. That's like starting in at rock climbing by tackling Mt. Everest. Short stories help you learn your craft.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Rocks, Climbing

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• 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

  Book, Adventure, Air

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• - Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Want, Trekking

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• 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

  Accomplishment, Firsts, Becoming

  "Law professor-author Randall Kennedy". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 1, 2011.

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• 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

  Couple, Guides, Mountaineering

  "Sir Edmund Hillary: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. 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

  Ocean, Moving, Writing

  "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.

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