Mountaineering Quotes - Page 5

• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

  William Blake

  Sports, Nature, Determination

  Note-Book (1807 - 1809)

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• Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

  Eric Shipton

  Climbing, Able, Rock Climbing

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• Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Sports, Athlete, Climbing

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• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

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• In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

  Frank Smythe

  Men, Hiking, Civilization

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• We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Risk, Causes, Mountain Climbers

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.422, Oxford University Press

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• Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, Rivers, Tree

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• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

  Chris Darwin

  Wall, Climbing, Bricks

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• Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Hiking, Vision

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• My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Father, Climbing

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• Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Integrity, Climbing, Mountain

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• I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Film, Mountain Climbers

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• The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Perspective, Trying

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• The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.

  Catherine Destivelle

  Climbing, Three, Months

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• Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Yosemite, Caps

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• John Wayne never wore Lycra.

  Ron Kauk

  Climbing, Wayne, Climbs

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• The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Climbing, Scary, Colorado

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• As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren Harding

  Climbing, Yosemite, Lasts

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

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Work, Climbing

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• Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

  Charlie Fowler

  Funny, Climbing, Skills

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