Quotes on Climbing To The Top

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

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.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

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

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.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.