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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.

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.

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.

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.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.