To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Going to the mountains is going home.
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
I still find each day too short.
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world
There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
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.
Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.
The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.
If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
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