Quotes of: Mount-everest Keyword

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

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.

Kenneth Kamler

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Steve Fossett

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Margaret Thatcher

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

Burton Mercer: This, gentlemen, is the elegant abode of one Elwood Blues. Officer Mount: Thanks for your help, Mr. Mercer. Burton Mercer: You know, I kind of like the Wrigley Field bit. Officer Mount: Yeah, *real* cute.

The Blues Brothers

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

Anatoli Boukreev

How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! W...

Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

Justin Zackham

I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

Edmund Hillary

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

Edmund Hillary

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

Sara Paretsky

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

Edmund Hillary

Burton Mercer: [to Trooper Daniel] Hi! Wanna hand me the mike? [Daniel gives him the police radio] Burton Mercer: Thanks a lot. [speaking in radio] Burton Mercer: Hi, this is car um... [to Officer Mount] Burton Mercer: What number are we? Officer Mou...

The Blues Brothers

I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Finding Jim

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Edmund Hillary

I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that.

Brian Blessed

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Lucy Stone

I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.

Wendy E. Long