Yuichiro Miura Quotes

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

I always wanted to try Mt. Everest since I was a kid. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that.

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

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.

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

People get very excited about very high elements. That's why Mount Everest is so important - it's not the most difficult mountain, but it's the most famous because it's the tallest.

Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of climbing.

When I took on Everest, I'm not there for the views.

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 was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

You can, maybe, do something like Annapurna once in a lifetime. Then don't try to do it again.

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb 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.

When I was super young, we were hiking to the top of the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado. You know, when I was in my early teens, we went to Bolivia and climbed to the tops of the highest mountains in the Alps. You know, those experiences were so exciting that when I came back to school, I was actually quite bored.

This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.