There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler 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
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:"We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full… — Alan Hinkes Copy Share Image
Similar to the way of life mountaineering are inaccessible, can delete non-existent you just made a mistake — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that… — 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
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
“Jeg ligger og kjender at jeg hader dette forbandede fjeld, fordi det har makt over mitt sind. Hvad vil du mig -… — Peter Wessel Zapffe 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
[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
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
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
“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
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
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
“- 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
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
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
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
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
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 loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked. — Sabaa Tahir 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
“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
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
The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are… — Lisa Morgan 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
“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
“It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are… — Andy Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Mountaineering isn't as solo a sport as one may think. While the main goal is to reach the peak, one also keeps… — Arunima Sinha 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
“...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 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
“...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
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