Altitude Quotes

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

My sky diving experience was spectacular, to say the least. The number of safety measures and repeated cross checks make it safer. The team did not let us jump alone, as individuals are not expected to have the expertise to do so safely on their own.

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

I'm really high... I mean the altitude of course.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"

I go skydiving often. At least twice a year.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's crisp but hard, a side-raking light that can be revealing but doesn't have the softness that maritime air has.

You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.