Top 226 Everest Quotes & Sayings

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.

When it comes to Everest, psychologically, you have to be in the red. If you're not, it doesn't matter how fit you are. I've seen the fittest of people, who I thought would steam up the top of Everest, allow the pressure to take over their body.

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

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

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

I respect Everest very much.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.

I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.

We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.

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

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

I don't need to come back to Everest.

If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.

Everyone has their own Everest to climb

I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me

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

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

People with success are less able to cope because you're used to being on Mount Everest and when it's gone, what do you do?

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

The answer is that I do want to climb Everest, but I don't want to go to Everest. I don't want to be cold. I can't take the time. It's just not practical.

I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy that conquered it. He actually went on an expedition after the Everest climb to look for the Yeti, and they didn't find it, but they found a footprint and some hair samples that turned out to be a goat or something.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

On Mount Everest it feels as if you are in the womb, but on K2 you are always out on the edge.

Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it

Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.

When I took on Everest, I'm not there for the views.

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.