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.

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

Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.

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.

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.

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.