When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I really haven’t liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.