Book: In the rarefied air

There are people for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to put aside all doubt, who are most careful of people.

There is nothing more harmful for the seeker of the human spirit than a secure future.

... as history shows, when given the chance to reach the highest point of the planet, people are surprisingly quick stops to think sensibly.

She was so fragile. I can still feel her fingers sliding along my arm and then let go of this hand. I didn't even turn around to look at her.

But sometimes I asked myself: did I just come all this long way to understand what actually I was looking for what was left behind.

It seemed that here on the mountain, there is an unspoken agreement to pretend that the parched remains not real - as if none of us dared to acknowledge what is at stake here.

You can find a lot of reasons, but ultimately, it all comes down to human error.

Mallory, answering the pesky question of the correspondent why he decided to climb Everest, uttered his renowned wit: "Because he exists".

With enough determination, any idiot can climb this mountain, - said Hall. But the trick is to come back alive.

Attempt to climb Everest - in fact, deeply irrational act-a triumph of dreams over common sense. Any person who is seriously obsessed with this, by definition, are beyond reason.