Alps Quote by Frederick Lenz

“The Glacier Express shows that for the Swiss the mountains are a challenge rather than a barrier, there to be tunnelled under and driven…

— Diccon Bewes

If you're good at skiing in the Alps, you are good all around the world.

— Jannik Sinner

Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

— Alexander Pope

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

— Paul Theroux

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...

— Alexander Pope

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted…

— Emily Greene Balch

People get very excited about very high elements. That's why Mount Everest is so important - it's not the most difficult mountain, but it's…

— Cesar Pelli

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

— Groucho Marx

For me, one of the attractions simply is the variety of interests that climbing serves. In the Himalayas, it's the traveling, the different cultures…

— Jeff Lowe

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

— Anonymous

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and…

— Robert Littell

“...Following the bird you lay into a deep turn in the steepening descent. It [the snow] is super soft, bottomless and amazingly light, yet…

— Steve Baldwin