35 Quotes by Conrad Anker

Periodista:-¿Por qué vá a subir al Everest?Mallory:-Porque está ahí.

Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory

Enlightenment isn’t found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

Climbers have no sense of smell.

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.

I like to think that today is the best day of my life and tomorrow will be the next best day of my life. And if you think that way, you're living for the beauty of today.

I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.

If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.