“Man has climbed Mount Everest. Gone to the bottom of the ocean. He has fired rockets at the moon. Split the atom. Achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor...except crime!”— Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn, Auric Goldfinger, Gert Frobe, imdb.com
“I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.”— Edmund Hillary, theage.com.au
“The elevation difference between the Marianas Trench & Mount Everest’s summit is a mere 12 miles. Manhattan is a mile longer.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com