110 Quotes About Mountaineering

I assure you it's harder to battle human stupidity than to do battle with mountains. Mountains, after all, have holds.

The american climber Mark Twight, mentor of the Grivel climbing team, commented, "Now every ill-prepared sad sack whose ability falls short of his Himalayan ambitions can get on the radio, call for help, and expect the cavalry to save the day"- on Tomaz Humar's rescue from Rupal Face of Nanga Parvat.

He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them.

... where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.

In a civilization of wage slaves, where people seek to survive more than to live, mountaineering is an enigma.

The altimeter had been damaged along the way, but the few bottles that we brought along to wash down the ordinary expedition rations were fine. True, a bottle gives only a vague indication of altitude, but can you drink an altimeter?

Keeping in mind the old mountain adage that the longer you take to set up your bivy site, the shorter the bivy you have to endure, we ended up taking two hours to dig the snow cave.

Mounting high; Mounting far. Your goal the Empyrean; Your aim the MACS0647-JD.

As climbers thronged the scope of Everest, the Rupal Face retained its solitude, remaining a formidable oabjective.