Everest Quotes: top 89 famous quotes about Everest

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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye

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

While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear — Jon Krakauer

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me. — Joe Carnahan

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

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. — Edmund Hillary

Everest, son, remember when I told you that asking questions is a sign of weakness? — Jonathan Dunne

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

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

I needed to go ... the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth. — Tenzing Norgay

I am big and I am strong and I am powerful- a girl of Everest proportions who won't easily be conquered.' - ppg 26 — Annabel Pitcher

If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier. — Yuichiro Miura

The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest. — Anna Kendrick

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

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

Alone on the summit of Mount Everest. — Jacqueline Susann

These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage. — Tarquin Hall

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) — George Leigh Mallory

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack. — Aaron Huey

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road. — Jon Krakauer

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. — Edmund Hillary

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so. — George Mallory

I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that. — Brian Blessed

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book. — Sara Paretsky

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. — Tenzing Norgay

They may have reached Everest, okay, but there is nothing there — Osho

Some day I'm going to climb Everest. — Edmund Hillary

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

Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory — Conrad Anker

I respect Everest very much. — Anatoli Boukreev

For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind. — Eleanor Everest Freer

I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life. — Tenzing Norgay

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks. — Lydia Leonard

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like. — Alex Ferguson

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

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight. — Mary Everest Boole

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream — Junko Tabei

We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain. — Charlie Munger

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again. — Tamae Watanabe

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! — Aldous Huxley

If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest. — Tenzing Norgay

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

I told you, we haven't had sex! It was just a kiss. Like the Viper was just a car, and Mount
Everest was just a hill. — Linda Howard

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there. — Edmund Hillary

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. — Mary Everest Boole

I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me — Peter Habeler

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit. — Gary Johnson

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest. — Justin Zackham

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God. — Roland Smith

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary. — Edmund Hillary

Actually,standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest. — Jennifer Niven

The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself. — Bear Grylls

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain. — Lewis Pugh

Everyone has their own Everest to climb — Wanda Rutkiewicz

Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks. — David Breashears

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart. — Bear Grylls

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag. — Margaret Thatcher

I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest. — Susan Oakey-Baker

Climbing your personal Everest, do your best to make sure it won't end up being your Calvary. — Sahara Sanders

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest. — Norman Vincent Peale

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. — Margaret Thatcher

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

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. — George Leigh Mallory

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there. — George Leigh Mallory

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of. — Kenneth Kamler

I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide. — Anatoli Boukreev

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

'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

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

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. — Alan Rickman

Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed. — Jon Krakauer

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. — Roger Bannister

Trying to get with Six is like deciding to take up mountain climbing and choosing Everest as your first mountain — Pittacus Lore

Because it's there. — George Mallory

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

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here. — Anatoli Boukreev

the only thing you'll find at the summit of mount everest is a divine view, the things that really matter lie far below it — Peak

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest. — Natalie Du Toit

It's all bullshit on Everest these days. — Edmund Hillary

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory

Seriously, Iv ... You could climb him like Everest, make base camp at his cock, and tackle the rest in the morning. — Kristen Callihan

Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses. — Jon Krakauer

I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn't mean I have any intention of trying to climb it — Jeaniene Frost

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. — Zig Ziglar

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

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest. — Conrad Anker

Everest you won't change, but I will get better ... I will conquer you. — Edmund Hillary

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition. — Steve Fossett

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