What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is. — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
“It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.” — Mark Obmascik Copy Share Image
Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering. — Jon Krakauer 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
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
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
“This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.” — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports. — Nirmal Purja 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
I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked. — Sabaa Tahir 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
The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for… — Doug Scott 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 really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“hI was following through on the mountain commitment from my younger days, and it's always a nice surprise when the newly minted… — Erhard Loretan Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather… — Rebecca Solnit 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
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
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
“- 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
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
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
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
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
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything. — Catherine Destivelle Copy Share Image
This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“If you ignore the mountain, doesn't mean mountain will ignore you too..” — Tanveer Mazhar Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is more about mental strength to conquer rather than physical. — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
Hiking path of life are inaccessible as a mistake can erase your existence, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
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