Mountaineers Quotes
- The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because… — Lisa Morgan
- Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who… — Gaston Rebuffat
- Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights.… — Anatoli Boukreev
- We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late. — Galen Rowell
- Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how… — George Leigh Mallory
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our… — John Muir
- I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too… — Edmund Hillary
- I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought… — Edmund Hillary