The very famous Mount Everest has been the subject for endless quotes & quotations by the likes of Edmund Hillary, Mallory, Krakauer, Messner, Allison & others.
- "Well, we knocked the bastard off! "Edmund Hillary
- "I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life" Tenzing Norgay
- "Such arrogance, I believe, is dangerous for any climber, but it is especially dangerous for one who purports to be a Himalayan guide" Jon Krakauer
- "Oh, the absolute lethargy of 24,600'. You want to pee, and you lie there for a quarter of an hour making up your mind to look for the pee bottle." Chris Bonnington
- "The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy." George Mallory
- "I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me" Peter Habeler
- "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
- "I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits." Reinhold Messner
- "Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream." Tom Whittaker
- "Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there..." Ed Viesturs
- "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
- "Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory" Ed Viesturs
- "We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth." George Mallory
- "Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous." Reinhold Messner
