Everest Quotations

People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.

Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

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.

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

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual.

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

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

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

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

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

If it's an environmental expedition, it seems to me the primary goal should be to clean up what's on Everest like the tent parts, oxygen bottles and other trash. It gets to be misleading when you run the whole media gamut.

Heroic stories and images motivate people. Our Everest ascent for the cause of peace will provide the world with inspirational stories, images and videos that portray courage, friendship and teamwork.

Here's the interesting part. The people who go to Everest on a regular basis, like the commercial expeditions that go back and forth each year, while some don't like the commercial outfitters, one benefit is that when they go, they know they're going back the next year. So they're less likely to leave their trash because they're camping there next year.

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

I respect Everest very much.

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.

To make 'Water' was akin to climbing Mount Everest -- a hard journey.

To my knowledge, the Malaysians who have seen Everest have only seen its South Face. We may have been the first Malaysians to have reached the North Face,

Every mountain has at least one way up it, ... We reckoned there must be a route up Everest from Nepal.

The torch will also go to the top of Mount Everest as it is known in the west. This has never been done before.

I stand behind that record totally, and I always want Madonna to do well, ... but the Mount Everest of ambition for me would be to have a William Orbit record top the charts. If I got an album with my name on it to No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, I would be smoking a cigar.

It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt,

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.

The British mountaineer George Mallory was once famously asked why he was trying to climb Mount Everest and his famous reply was 'because it is there.' That's a compelling argument when you are a mountaineer. But for an $850 million rover mission you better have a better reason than that.

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

This budget is not going to put us on a path to balancing the budget. Not in five years, not in 10 years, not in 20 years. It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt.

You don't want a new team owner to think he has to climb Mount Everest to have a winning team. Not everybody can climb Mount Everest.

For many climbers, Everest is usually a one-time deal,

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I like to call this mission the Everest of planetary exploration. It's really fantastic.

I know Everest is talking pretty big and whatever, they are all up there with each other. To us, that's probably our biggest threat because of their speed offensively. It could fall anywhere. Play all three of them at the end, which is different. I hope we will have better competition with them because of that.

I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm a little older than most. This is my first trip. Most people wind up making a couple of trips before they summit. I don't know what my chances will be.

Climbing Everest is not cheap. It's been an uphill battle. But, for an Everest climb that is appropriate.

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

These kids know what is at stake, and I think we were a little nervous. They're good. I think Everest has made one of the biggest climbs during the season. A couple bounces of the puck and we could've been down after the first period.

The drug tour he had hoped would be unique, his own, ... was apparently a widely known trip down a well-traveled path, in the sort of full-color brochure that also described gorilla encounters in Africa and white-water rafting on the Ganges and treks to the Everest base camp and birding in Mongolia.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

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

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

We cannot stop at the foothills when Everest lies ahead.

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