#everest

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cancer #climbing #doctors #early #elbow

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#business #committed #everest #fischer #hall

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#blood #character #clan #easy #family

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. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#dream #everest #i #like #lots

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

— Anatoli Boukreev

#being #coach #everest #guide #i

I respect Everest very much. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#i #much #respect #very

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#severest #silence #sometimes

People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do. ↗

— Paula Cole

#actually #become #bothers #break #climbing

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

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#friendship #held #severest #test