Raha Moharrak Quotes

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

Why climb? That's a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can't justify it. I can't say it's for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it's full of vainglorious pursuits.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Climbing the mountain is always more fun than sitting at the top. It's just you have to find different mountains to climb.

I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.

I have had such a unique experience in the game. I got to experience the best of my craft, and I did that multiple times. There is nothing more I wish I could experience.

It is always thrilling to attempt something new and it feels great when your efforts are awarded positively.

There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.

I've accomplished every goal I've set out to. I've traveled the world, I've competed in just about every promotion there is.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

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 enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.