My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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

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

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

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

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

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

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.

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.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

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.

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

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.

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

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

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

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.

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

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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

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.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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

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.

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

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

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

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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

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.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I love trying new things.

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.

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

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.