“It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.” — Mark Obmascik Copy Share Image
What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is. — Pat Ament 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
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people… — Jim Wickwire Copy Share Image
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and… — Edmund Hillary 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
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler Copy Share Image
Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports. — Nirmal Purja 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
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. — Chris Darwin Copy Share Image
“...just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her er rummelig og bredt, her slår vi oss ned i en grushaug og spiser mat og drikker saft og ligger på… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety… — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it… — Samina Baig Copy Share Image
“...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain… — Jonathan Waterman 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
Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their… — Anatoli Boukreev 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
“I trained. I punished myself. I thought making myself suffer on a day-to-day basis would prepare me for climbing hard at high… — Mark Twight 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
“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
“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
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. — John Muir Copy Share Image
