[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.
Rebecca SolnitTag: nature walking mountains mountaineering page-144
...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.
Jonathan WatermanTag: life mountaineering denali
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Ed ViestursTag: safety mountaineering climbing hiking
Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Edward WhymperTag: mountains mountaineering climbing
Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
Jeffrey RasleyTag: memoir philanthropy mountains biography mountaineering tibet nepal expeditions himalayas three-cups-of-tea trekking
...just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last
Fosco MarainiTag: mountains mountaineering climbing k2
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction. . . fulfilled a destiny. . . To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law. . .
George MalloryTag: dreams mountains mountaineering climbing everest
Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins.
There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.
Tag: mountaineering
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert MacfarlaneTag: inspirational adventure humility arrogance mountains oblivion mountaineering
For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.
George MalloryTag: mountains mountaineering climbing everest
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