Erhard Loretan Quotes

#1. hI was following through on the mountain commitment from my younger days, and it's always a nice surprise when the newly minted adult doesn't disown the child he once was.

Erhard Loretan

#2. I assure you it's harder to battle human stupidity than to do battle with mountains. Mountains, after all, have holds.

Erhard Loretan

#3. A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Henry Rollins

#4. The altimeter had been damaged along the way, but the few bottles that we brought along to wash down the ordinary expedition rations were fine. True, a bottle gives only a vague indication of altitude, but can you drink an altimeter?

Erhard Loretan

#5. If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#6. There's nothing wrong with a youthful prospective. Don't forget- no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories you have to tell.

Charles De Lint

#7. He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.

Bill Dickey

#8. Keeping in mind the old mountain adage that the longer you take to set up your bivy site, the shorter the bivy you have to endure, we ended up taking two hours to dig the snow cave.

Erhard Loretan

#9. In a civilization of wage slaves, where people seek to survive more than to live, mountaineering is an enigma.

Erhard Loretan; Jean Amman

#10. Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Earl Monroe

#11. All my life, I have never felt as happy on Earth as when I'm getting closer to the sky.

Erhard Loretan