Each fresh peak ascended teaches something. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington Copy Share Image
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you? — Don Whillans Copy Share Image
If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone — Jim Whittaker Copy Share Image
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler Copy Share Image
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. — Chris Darwin Copy Share Image
As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The mountain greets me with respect and guides me to traverse the rocks and crevices of its body! He is strong and… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“if philosophy is mountain climbing then literature is an anti-gravity parade I love thee like a leper colony loves to make a… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. — Richard R. Nelson Copy Share Image
In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them… — Wolfgang Gullich Copy Share Image
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on… — Chris Darwin Copy Share Image
I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this:… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are… — Lisa Morgan Copy Share Image
“Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Once again we've found ourselves on a mountain without climbing gear. — Maryam Shafaq Copy Share Image
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. — John Muir Copy Share Image
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think! — Don Whillans Copy Share Image
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
