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Top 15 Ed Viesturs Quotes (2025 Update)

Ed Viesturs Quote: “Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”

1. “Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “The summit is just a halfway point.”

2. “The summit is just a halfway point.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “Mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

3. “Mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “There are no short cuts to the top.”

4. “There are no short cuts to the top.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.”

5. “I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.”

6. “The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “Dreams are not made to put us to sleep, but to awaken us.”

7. “Dreams are not made to put us to sleep, but to awaken us.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “Mountains don’t kill people, they just sit there...”

8. “Mountains don’t kill people, they just sit there...”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “Every person has his or her own Annapurna.” I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life – challenges I wasn’t sure I could meet – but that “the real Annapurna was my last one.” For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.”

9. “Every person has his or her own Annapurna.” I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life – challenges I wasn’t sure I could meet – but that “the real Annapurna was my last one.” For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.”

— Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs Quote: “K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It’s just there. It’s indifferent. It’s an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The “savageness” is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.”

10. “K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It’s just there. It’s indifferent. It’s an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The “savageness” is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “Safety is first; fun is second; success is third.”

11. “Safety is first; fun is second; success is third.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “No matter what the future holds in store, I can say now – out loud, without hesitation – something that, sadly, all too few men and women can ever say: I have lived my dream.”

12. “No matter what the future holds in store, I can say now – out loud, without hesitation – something that, sadly, all too few men and women can ever say: I have lived my dream.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.”

13. “I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “The famous last line of Herzog’s book is “There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”

14. “The famous last line of Herzog’s book is “There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.”

15. “Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “Your instincts are telling you something. Trust them and listen to them.”

16. “Your instincts are telling you something. Trust them and listen to them.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.”

17. “Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “It reminds me of a very wise saying about mountaineering that my wife, Paula, repeats often: “Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you don’t.”

18. “It reminds me of a very wise saying about mountaineering that my wife, Paula, repeats often: “Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you don’t.”

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Ed Viesturs Quote: “What drives my life is not the desire to get along with other people or make friends so much as a moral obligation to give back as much as – no, more than – I take. That’s karma. It’s really not so far from the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Some.”

19. “What drives my life is not the desire to get along with other people or make friends so much as a moral obligation to give back as much as – no, more than – I take. That’s karma. It’s really not so far from the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Some.”

— Ed Viesturs

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