Mountain Climbing Quotes
Mountain Climbing Quote of the day
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.
It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.
When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.
If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13, 796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.
The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!
No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .
I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it.
