Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.
Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.