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
“Hans andakt er undringen ved det å være til, taknemmelighet over kroppens og sansernes og sindets virkelighet i en verden av fabler.… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we… — Lionel Terray 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 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
Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. — Morihei Ueshiba 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
“Keeping in mind the old mountain adage that the longer you take to set up your bivy site, the shorter the bivy… — Erhard Loretan 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
“Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the… — Susan Oakey-Baker Copy Share Image
Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. — Annie Smith Peck 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
Hiking path of life are inaccessible as a mistake can erase your existence, — Mak_786 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 a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its… — Hermann Buhl Copy Share Image
“Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in… — David Oliver Relin 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
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington Copy Share Image
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those… — Virginia Postrel 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
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
