When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

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

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

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

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

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 think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

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

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

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.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

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

Not all those who wander are lost.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

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

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.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

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.

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

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.

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 a wandering gypsy.

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

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

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

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.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

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

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.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

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

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.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

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.

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

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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

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

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.

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.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

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

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

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 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.

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.

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