#everest

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

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

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#cleverest #fool #himself #in my opinion #least

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

#any #ask #climbing #everest #first

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

— Charles Eastman

#friendship #held #severest #test

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

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#injustice #law #severest #sometimes #strictest

Everest attempt at sixty-two, three weeks after undergoing surgery for kidney cancer, marathon des Sables six months after it was amputated fingers and toes, be measured by the diagonal of Fools four weeks after ablation of a metastasis to the lung, is this possible? Cancer does not stop your life, giving up your dreams or your goals, it is simply a parameter to manage, no more, no less than all the other parameters of life. How to ensure that the disease becomes transparent to you and your entourage, almost insignificant in terms of trip you want to accomplish? This is precisely the question that Gerard Bourrat tries to answer in this book. To make a sports performance, to live with her cancer, to live well with amputations, the path is always the same: a goal, the joy of effort, perseverance and faith. This book does not commit you to climb Everest, to run under a blazing sun, walking thousands of miles, it invites you to conquer your own Everest. ↗

— Gérard Bourrat

#everest #la-vie #dreams