If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
Everyone has their own Everest to climb
Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you.
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
Some day I'm going to climb Everest.
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)
I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me
I respect Everest very much.
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
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.
Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.
