John Layfield Quotes

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

I climb mountains.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

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 love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

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

I have the tools to climb the mountain so I don't mind climbing mountains. I have climbed mountains since I was growing up in east London in Plaistow. I'm not scared of climbing mountains. When you get to the top, the view's great. That's what it's all about.

I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked.

I don't need to come back to Everest.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

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.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.

I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me.

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.

I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.

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

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.

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