Everest quotes
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Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.
-- Aaron Huey -
Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.
-- Alex Ferguson -
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 -
I respect Everest very much.
-- Anatoli Boukreev -
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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 -
There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.
-- Conrad Anker -
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
-- Edmund Hillary -
Some day I'm going to climb Everest.
-- Edmund Hillary -
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Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
-- George Leigh Mallory -
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
-- George Leigh Mallory -
I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me
-- Peter Habeler -
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
-- Sara Paretsky -
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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 -
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
-- Tenzing Norgay -
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
-- Tenzing Norgay -
Everyone has their own Everest to climb
-- Wanda Rutkiewicz -
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People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.
-- Zig Ziglar -
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
-- Roland Smith
