"I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me."
Peter Habeler

"The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificance to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy." George Mallory, 1924.

"All the winds of Asia seemed to be trying to blow us from the ridge."
Peter Boardman, 1975, about the South Summit

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

"Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top."
Edmund Hillary

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

"Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream."
Tom Whittaker

"Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you can not buy with money or be given by others...it rises from your heart." Junko Tabei 1975 after becoming first woman to climb Everest.

"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

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

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

“The smaller one comes to feel compared to the mountain, the nearer one comes to sharing in its greatness. I do not know why this is so.” Arne Naess

"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.

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

Mount Everest at 29,035’ (8848m) is the highest mountain in the world and is situated in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal. Her summit perpetually slices the Jet Stream.