Climbing Quote by Catherine Destivelle

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

— Greg Child

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to…

— Walter Lippmann

Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain...…

— Chris Darwin

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the…

— Maurice Herzog

Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those…

— Gaston Rebuffat

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow…

— William Arthur Ward

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

— Reinhold Messner

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

— Casey Stengel

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

— Chris Darwin

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

— John Muir