The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything. — Catherine Destivelle Copy Share Image
This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Similar to the way of life mountaineering are inaccessible, can delete non-existent you just made a mistake — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:"We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full… — Alan Hinkes Copy Share Image
“Aftenen endte med idyll. Håkon kaldte mig genial, og jeg svarte at han var en stor menneskekjender.” — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
The path of life is difficult similer mountaineering,, only a mistake can wipe your existence . — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40… — Anatoli Boukreev 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
“I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.” — Mark Obmascik Copy Share Image
Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
Look, I do not control alpinism. But maybe I was too successful. Many in the mountaineering scene - journalists, second-rate climbers, lecturers,… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
“Jeg ligger og kjender at jeg hader dette forbandede fjeld, fordi det har makt over mitt sind. Hvad vil du mig -… — Peter Wessel Zapffe 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 don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“Maybe mountaineering shouldn't be considered heroic at all, since the whole effort is 'useless' and in no way to be compared with… — Robert Roper Copy Share Image
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“One of the differences between us was that Marc wanted very badly to climb the Eiger, while I wanted very badly only… — Jon Krakauer 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
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and… — Louis J. Mordell 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 Mallory Copy Share Image
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“In a civilization of wage slaves, where people seek to survive more than to live, mountaineering is an enigma.” — Erhard Loretan; Jean Amman Copy Share Image
Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind. — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
The way of life difficult are like mountaineering,, you can wipe the astonishing only a mistake . — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when… — Ed Viesturs Copy Share Image
“I assure you it's harder to battle human stupidity than to do battle with mountains. Mountains, after all, have holds.” — Erhard Loretan Copy Share Image
If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our… — Jerzy Kukuczka Copy Share Image
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Og er ikke klippen sin tilbedelse værd? Prøver den ikke hjerte og nyrer før den gir plas for de utvalgte?” — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image