Karyn Kusama Quotes

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

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

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

Crossing the Gobi was a real milestone for me.

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

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

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

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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

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.

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.

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

I've been to the top. I've also been at the bottom.

When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.

Finding something new that I know I've never done before is the best feeling I know, and when I get there it's all worth it.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

The journey is the treasure.

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