#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

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

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

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#romantic

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. ↗

— John McPhee

#geology #india

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#clearer #contribute #day #everest #happened

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

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#big #climbing #cool #everest #experiences

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

— Sara Paretsky

#climb #could #everest #i #never