Gaston Rebuffat Quotes

• L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps là où, un jour, ses yeux ont regardé. Et qui revient.

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  Son, Climbing, Regard

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• Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

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  Integrity, Climbing, Hiking

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• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

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  Journey, Hiking, Rocks

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• Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having set off too late; first for reasons of safety-the adage 'it is later than you think is very true in the mountains-but also because of the strange beauty of the moment: the day comes to replace the night, the peaks gradually lighten, it is the hour of mystery but also of hope. Setting off by lantern-light, witnessing the birth of a new day as one climbs to meet the sun, this is a wonderful experience

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  Regret, Thinking, Night

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• The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All of us have our reasons, innumerable, personal and complex. From many points of view a climb is a challenge we must meet.

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  Dream, Autumn, Climbing

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• A la Verte on devient montagnard.

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  Climbing

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• Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity

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  Integrity, Climbing, Mountain

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• Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

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  Rain, Sunshine, Sky

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