Air Quote by Anatoli Boukreev

“Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in the world…

— David Oliver Relin

“Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of…

— Edward Whymper

“The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some unknown artist.”

— Avijeet Das

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

— Steve House

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always…

— Luke Evans

“At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley."…

— John Steinbeck

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

— Anatoli Boukreev

Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

— John Muir

“At thirty, she was a straight-backed, strong, short woman with rough red cheeks, a mountaineer’s long stride, and a mountaineer’s deep lungs.”

— Anonymous

“free life” as described by a mountaineer: “The mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and…

— Peter Matthiessen

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from…

— Tim Cope