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Quotes 1-Jun-2012 At 6:45:17 PM JohnK

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....and a few more I guess....

"The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind- destroying, physically- destroying, soul- destroying..." Chris Bonnington, 1975

"No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time." Na Nook
"Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream." - Tom Whittaker

"You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest." Willi Unsoeld

"You feel like you're one giant lung, as if breathing is all there is to life." Mike Groom

"Altitude is the great equalizer" Anonymous

"There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier." Chris Bonington

"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" Junko Tabei-1975 after becoming first woman to climb Everest

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

"Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there..." Ed Viesturs

"We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile." Peter Habeler, 1978, first oxygenless ascent [After] the Hillary Step.

"I must make top, you know . I know want go up more but, is not possible to make sponsors if no success here" Mark Batard-tried to reach summit in 24 hours

"Pasang and I, at either end of the break, managed to scramble off the moving sheet of snow, and Riddiford was left suspended between the two of us while the sheet broke into great blocks and slid silently into the trough." Eric Shipton, 1951 on the Khumbu Ice Fall

"Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks" David Breashears

"We have founded a support group for Everest climbers called Everest Anonymous, members can call each other up for support when thier thinking about returning to the mountain" David Breashears

"Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory" Ed Viesturs

"Everest is a matter of universal of human endeavor, a cause from which there is no withdrawl, whatever loses it may demand" G.O. Dyrenfurth

"I have climbed my mountain ,but I must still live my life" Tenzing Norgay

"Hey, look, don't worry too much about me" Rob Hall ..His last words via satellite radio-phone to his pregnant wife in New Zealand

"As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how. Edmund Hillary, referring to the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

"Pissing through 6 inches of clothes with a 3 inch penis" Anonymous Everest
summiteer when asked what was the hardest thing about climbing Mt Everest

"We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth." George Mallory, 1924

"I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.. Reinhold Messner, 1980

"The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world." Stacy Allison, first American woman to summit Everest

"I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits." Reinhold Messner

"Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous." Reinhold Messner.