Quotes on Climbing Mountain

I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

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

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.