Coronation Everest Quotes

“But if Everesters age and die, if Everest itself is tarnished rather, if Coronations are out of mode and news can be flashed instantaneously by satellite anywhere on earth - still that first ascent of 1953 remains, to my mind, one if the most honourable and innocent of the great adventures. It has not been diminished by the passing years. Mount Everest is littered now with the corpses of mountaineers of many nationalities, but not one of them lost their lives in 1953. None of the climbers vulgarly exploited their celebrity in the aftermath of success, and some have devoted their later years to the welfare of the Sherpa people. I thought them very decent men when I first met them, and essentially decent they remained.”
― Jan Morris, Coronation Everest

“This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.”
― Jan Morris, Coronation Everest

“Now nearly all the mysteries have gone, and there is scarcely an unknown country left to peer at.)”
― Jan Morris, Coronation Everest