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

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

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

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

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.

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

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

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

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

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.

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’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

I love trying new things.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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.

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

I’m a wandering gypsy.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.