Each fresh peak ascended teaches something. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington Copy Share Image
If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone — Jim Whittaker Copy Share Image
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler Copy Share Image
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was, — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty of mountain climbing, Jack thought. It strips away the ego. You can’t tell the true measure of a human… — Kevin Tinto Copy Share Image
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
“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
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
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
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own,… — Al Alvarez 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
There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared… — Edward Whymper Copy Share Image
The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes,… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
“When he was preparing for a big fight, his trainer would take him mountain climbing to build up his hand strength and… — Christine Bell 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
“It was Day Three, Freshman Year, and I was a little bit lost in the school library,looking for a bathroom that wasn't… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends. — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is. — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. — Samina Baig Copy Share Image
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on… — Jimmy Jewel Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything. — Catherine Destivelle Copy Share Image
