Adversity Quote by William Arthur Ward

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

— Stacy Allison

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

— William Arthur Ward

Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for…

— Anatoli Boukreev

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

— Jim Whittaker

Mountaineering is more about mental strength to conquer rather than physical.

— Arunima Sinha

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

— Jim Whittaker

Everybody has to choose his or her own way to climb a mountain. I don't give an opinion. But there needs to be enough…

— Ueli Steck

I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity…

— Lincoln Hall

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you…

— Yvon Chouinard

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things…

— Edmund Hillary

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

— Chris Jericho

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