Equipment Quote by Jon Krakauer

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody…

— Evan Williams

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

— Yvon Chouinard

Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there.

— Ara Parseghian

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the…

— Rebecca Solnit

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may…

— Frank Smythe

I still value the adventurous side, confronting the mountain on its terms, more than I value actual success in terms of getting to the…

— Jeff Lowe

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself…

— Karyn Kusama

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

— C. Wright Mills

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

— Steve Jobs

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

— Denis Waitley

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing…

— Jon Krakauer

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