Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Hornbein

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American mountaineer Tom Hornbein.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Tom Hornbein

Thomas Hornbein is an American mountaineer.

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful. — © Tom Hornbein
I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.
But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.
I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.
Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.
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