Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you? — Don Whillans Copy Share Image
Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway 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
Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports. — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
“All my life, I have never felt as happy on Earth as when I'm getting closer to the sky.” — Erhard Loretan Copy Share Image
Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.” — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“Mountaineering is always spoken of as though summiting is conquest, but as you get higher, the world gets bigger, and you feel… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“climbing a mountain represents a chance to be briefly free oneself of the small concerns of our common lives, to strip off… — Mateo Cabello Copy Share Image
“The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It… — Alan Hinkes Copy Share Image
“I was heavily involved on all fronts: with mountaineering outfitters, who oddly enough never fathomed the depths of my ignorance; possibly because… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go… — Wilfrid Noyce 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
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“hI was following through on the mountain commitment from my younger days, and it's always a nice surprise when the newly minted… — Erhard Loretan Copy Share Image
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing,… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
“I just love all this,' Walt says. 'The sights, the smells, making the effort and pushing yourself and getting something that's really… — Mark Obmascik Copy Share Image
“Dokker træng en hest," sa de. "Ja vil dokker bryte dokker så grynsmå," sa han, "så har æ no mærra her. Ka… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“I came to win, came as I always do, in order to justify who I am and what I have become; now… — Andy Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such… — Herzog Maurice Copy Share Image
“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no… — George Mallory Copy Share Image
“If you ignore the mountain, doesn't mean mountain will ignore you too..” — Tanveer Mazhar Copy Share Image
Hiking path of life are inaccessible as a mistake can erase your existence, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is more about mental strength to conquer rather than physical. — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
