I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

- Edmund Hillary

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

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

- Lydia Leonard

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

- Lewis Gordon Pugh

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.

- Kenneth Kamler

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

- Justin Zackham

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

- Joe Abercrombie

You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt.

- Jon Krakauer

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

- George Leigh Mallory

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

- Gary Johnson

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

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

- Edmund Hillary

I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

- Edmund Hillary

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

- Edmund Hillary

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

- Edmund Hillary

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

- Conrad Anker

We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.

- Baltasar Kormakur

I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

- Baltasar Kormakur

I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

- Anatoli Boukreev

I respect Everest very much.

- Anatoli Boukreev