#everest

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

People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do. ↗

— Paula Cole

#actually #become #bothers #break #climbing

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#additional #already #everest #evidence #foot

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

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

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. ↗

— Tenzing Norgay

#i #live #man #mount #mount everest

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

— Tenzing Norgay

#everest #i #know #make #much

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