Conrad Anker Quotes

“Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.”

“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.”

“Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale.”

“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. ”

“The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.”

“I prefer to look up in hope than down in expectation.”

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

“In the space between waves, we have the choice. To jump, to dive, to ride, to play. To face what's coming without running away.”

“Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change.”

“The psychology of the change is that “People like to change, but do not want to be changed and there is the difference.”