How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

~ Kathryn Hurn

Kathryn Hurn 50 Abandon Agony Anger Angry Annapurna Anorexia Austen Back Beauty Bed Betray Bovary Brave Bronte Chatterley Cloud Comedy Contemporary Courage Crime Dante Death Decision Deep Depression Descent Desire Disappointment Divine Divorce Drama Dysfunction Elated Emotion Enchant Erotic Esteem Everest Eyre Family Father Feeling Fiction Fifty Fire Forgive Gasherbrum Greed Grief Growth Happy Hardship Heal Heartbreak Heaven Hell Help Hiking Honesty Inauthenticity Isolation Jane Journey Juicy Justice Kissed Life Literary Loneliness Lonely Loss Love Loveless Lucy Lust Mad Marriage Married Money Mother Mountaineering Moving Murder Nine Packing Pageant Passage Passion Personal Philosophy Poetry Possess Prejudice Pretty Pride Purgatory Redeem Regret Relationship Remorse Resurrect Revelation Romance Romantic Sad Secrets Self Separate Seven Sex Shades Sin Sons Soul Spirituality Stars Steamy Strong Suicide Summits Tibet Time Transformation Trapped Travel Triumph Trust Unbearable Unhappy Union White Collar Woman Women

How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction. . . fulfilled a destiny. . . To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law. . .

~ George Mallory

George Mallory Climbing Dreams Everest Mountaineering Mountains

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

~ George Mallory

George Mallory Everest History Mountaineering

Evenings were peaceful, smoke settling in the quiet air to soften the dusk, lights twinkling on the ridge we would camp on tomorrow, clouds dimming the outline of our pass for the day after. Growing excitement lured my thoughts again and again to the West Ridge….There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find what I really sought was something I had left behind.

~ Thomas F. Hornbein

Thomas F. Hornbein Adventure Everest Mount Everest Mountain The West Ridge Thomas F Hornbein

I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost every time I laced up my climbing boots.

~ Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer Anxiety Everest Fear Mountains Nature

Lest others should attempt the ascent of this terrible climb and perish, they swore themselves to secrecy (telling only enough people to ensure the perpetuation of their epic) and went off to try Everest instead.

~ Whipplesnaith

Whipplesnaith Climb Everest Fall Secret

Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory

~ Conrad Anker

Conrad Anker Climbing Everest George Mallory Mountain

My Everest is not your Everest. Your Everest is not mine. We all have an Everest. Each of us. Sometimes the peak is literally Mount Everest but most times it lies deep within us, figuratively occupying a mountainous inner space. It calls us to rise up, to do what we formerly labeled as impossible, and to be who we deeply and desperately want to be. I know that I have found an Everest when my soul furiously pokes me repeatedly until I listen. Heeding this call to passionate adventure of any sort initiates a journey of intense immense proportion that changes every molecule of my being.

~ T.a. Loeffler

T.a. Loeffler Climbing Mountains Everest Mountain

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

Gérard Bourrat Cancer Everest La Vie

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Everest Second