"We encourage young people to go out and exceed their goals. Everest is an icon of that" Neil Beidleman
"Such arrogance, I believe, is dangerous for any climber, but it is especially dangerous for one who purports to be a Himalayan guide " Jon Krakauer-regarding Anatoli Boukreev and the 1996 disaster
"Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous." Reinhold Messner
"I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits." Reinhold Messner
"Pissing through 6 inches of clothes with a 3 inch penis" Anonymous Everest summiteer when asked what was the hardest thing about climbing Mt Everest
"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." Edmund Hillary, referring to the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
"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. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for." George Leigh Mallory, 1922
"Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there..." Ed Viesturs
"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-1975 after becoming first woman to climb Everest
"You feel like you're one giant lung, as if breathing is all there is to life." Mike Groom
"Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream." Tom Whittaker
"Oh, the absolute lethargy of 24,600'. You want to pee, and you lie there for a quarter of an hour making up your mind to look for the pee bottle." Chris Bonnington, 1975
"Hey, look, don't worry too much about me" Rob Hall ..His last words via satellite radio-phone to his pregnant wife in New Zealand
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