Peter Habeler quotes

Peter Habeler quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me”
-- Peter Habeler

#Everest Quotes
“We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.”
-- Peter Habeler

#Travel Quotes #Nature Quotes #Snow Quotes

“Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.”
“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.”
“I respect Everest very much.”
“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.”
“There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.”
“Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1923
“Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].”
“I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me”
“If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.”

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