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.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

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.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

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.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

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.