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
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Once again we've found ourselves on a mountain without climbing gear. — Maryam Shafaq Copy Share Image
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you? — Don Whillans Copy Share Image
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.” — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain. — Steve Fossett 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
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. — Edna Ferber 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
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
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
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
“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
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
I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and… — Brock Yates 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
Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast…a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic…So get out there and hunt and fish and mess… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But I would point out that there is another and still more important function of great mountains - the culture not of… — Henry Stephens Salt 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
Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which… — Duncan Ferguson Copy Share Image
“what is the expression which the age demands? the age demands no expression whatever. we have seen photographs of bereaved asian mothers.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“During my three seasons at Mount Rainier I learned a lot about mountain climbing and rescues, about politics and camaraderie in the… — Bree Loewen 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
