Mountaineering Quotes - Page 3

• Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

  Andy Serkis

  Hobbies, Huge, Mines

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• You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

  Chris McCormack

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

  Edmund Hillary

  Play, Important, Roles

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• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  Edmund Hillary

  Couple, Guides, Summit

  "Sir Edmund Hillary: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Successful, Sacrifice, Opportunity

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• A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mountain, Earth, Landscape

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Life has no romance without risk.

  Sarah Doherty

  Life, Strong Women, Adventure

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• How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Adventure, Climbing, Standards Set

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• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sweet, Rivers

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• Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

  Samina Baig

  Sports, Routine Life, Degrees

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• ...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Sweet, Inspirational Life, Short Life

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Climbing, Risk, Mountain

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Memories, Learning

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

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• I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

  John Ruskin

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

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• Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?

  Don Whillans

  Climbing, Males, Female

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• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Anger, Adversity, Climbing

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Work, Climbing

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.127, Hachette UK

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