What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

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.