It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.
It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.
I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.