Everest Quotes

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

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

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

Everyone has their own Everest to climb

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

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

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

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

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

I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me

I respect Everest very much.

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

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

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.