Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower… — Junko Tabei Copy Share Image
Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering. — Jon Krakauer 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
Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing. — Jonathan Waterman 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
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All my life, I have never felt as happy on Earth as when I'm getting closer to the sky.” — Erhard Loretan Copy Share Image
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway 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
The path of life is difficult similer mountaineering,, only a mistake can wipe your existence . — Mak_786 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
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir Copy Share Image
I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to… — John Cleese 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
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
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
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
Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind… — George Leigh Mallory 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
“Som skodden skapes, ændres og forsvinder - slik skummer også livsformerne for fjeldets fot. Det er ikke menneskealdre Stetinden har skuet ned… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one… — Gaston Rebuffat 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
“- og nu er det jeg som står og blir liten på den siste krumning i hyldens blygt hendøende motiv.-Drømmer jeg? Er… — Peter Wessel Zapffe 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
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
You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in… — Chris McCormack Copy Share Image
“I came to win, came as I always do, in order to justify who I am and what I have become; now… — Andy Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such… — Herzog Maurice Copy Share Image
“Så kastet jeg mig over Turistforeningens Årbøker og slukte hvad jeg fandt om klatring. Horunger, nåler og Djævleskar! Store Gud!” — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Og har han i Kroppen den rigtige Aand, han løfter den staalblanke Ven i sin Haand og klapper ham under hans Hage.… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain -… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an… — Ed Viesturs Copy Share Image
