Climbing Mountaineering Quotes

#1. After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

Jean Chatzky

#2. Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

Ed Viesturs

#3. K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

Ed Viesturs

#4. It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.

Mark Obmascik

#5. Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#6. The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.

Alan Hinkes

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

Steven Magee

#8. Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

Doug Scott

#9. 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.

Mekael Shane

#10. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Page No. 31, Freedom Climbers

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. I am a very extreme sort of character, as I don't do things by halves.

Rick Wakeman

#12. Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

Jacob M. Appel

#13. To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

Bernadette McDonald

#14. It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are together, no matter how much you love your family, your thoughts are only of your lover, of climbing.

Andy Kirkpatrick

#15. You could start a small fire ... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.

John Gossage

#16. I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.

Mark Obmascik

#17. For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

George Mallory

#18. Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

Vladimir Putin

#19. I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Edmund Hillary

#20. Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

Fritz Kreisler

#22. A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Robert Henri

#23. The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

Rick Riordan

#24. John Wayne never wore Lycra.

Ron Kauk

#25. They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Casey Stengel

#26. Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

Doug Scott

#27. Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#28. Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

Eric Shipton

#29. Finding and living our Soul Purpose is the process of looking beyond our desires to see what people around us want and then providing it for them in such a way that it also provides us with the highest levels of joy and fulfillment.

Garrett B. Gunderson

#30. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.

Alice Sebold

#31. The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

Trevanian

#32. Because it's there.

George Mallory

#33. too young to live, too old to die

Jeffrey Rasley

#34. To know your purpose, you must identify yourself in the world and know who you are in the world

Sunday Adelaja