Mountaineering Quotes

If you ignore the mountain, doesn't mean mountain will ignore you too..

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person.

Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in the world where man feels himself so alone, so isolated, so completely ignored by nature, so incapable of entering into communion with her

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.