#everest

Everest attempt at sixty-two, three weeks after undergoing surgery for kidney cancer, marathon des Sables six months after it was amputated fingers and toes, be measured by the diagonal of Fools four weeks after ablation of a metastasis to the lung, is this possible? Cancer does not stop your life, giving up your dreams or your goals, it is simply a parameter to manage, no more, no less than all the other parameters of life. How to ensure that the disease becomes transparent to you and your entourage, almost insignificant in terms of trip you want to accomplish? This is precisely the question that Gerard Bourrat tries to answer in this book. To make a sports performance, to live with her cancer, to live well with amputations, the path is always the same: a goal, the joy of effort, perseverance and faith. This book does not commit you to climb Everest, to run under a blazing sun, walking thousands of miles, it invites you to conquer your own Everest. ↗

— Gérard Bourrat

#everest #la-vie #dreams

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#climbing #demands #everest #mount #mount everest

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

#message #much #people #room #tend

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. ↗

— Tenzing Norgay

#i #live #man #mount #mount everest

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

— Tenzing Norgay

#everest #i #know #make #much

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

— Sara Paretsky

#climb #could #everest #i #never

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. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

#any #ask #climbing #everest #first

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! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction. . . fulfilled a destiny. . . To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law. . . ↗

— George Mallory

#dreams #everest #mountaineering #mountains #dreams

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#injustice #law #severest #sometimes #strictest

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#climb #enough #everest #i #life