110 Quotes About Mountaineering
- Author Peter Wessel Zapffe
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Her er rummelig og bredt, her slår vi oss ned i en grushaug og spiser mat og drikker saft og ligger på ryggen med sprikende knær og røker pipe, mens blikket går lange turer på himmelen med hodet ned.
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- Author David Oliver Relin
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Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in the world where man feels himself so alone, so isolated, so completely ignored by nature, so incapable of entering into communion with her
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- Author Peter Wessel Zapffe
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Jeg ligger og kjender at jeg hader dette forbandede fjeld, fordi det har makt over mitt sind. Hvad vil du mig - at jeg er kommet de utalte mil fra en blidere egn for å slite mig ut på dine endeløse skråninger og dingle som en misdæder over utslettelsen?
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- Author Rebecca Solnit
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[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.
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- Author Peter Wessel Zapffe
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Det er tre ting en mand vil ha for sig selv, og det tredie er soveposen.
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- Author Peter Wessel Zapffe
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Men hensigten, spør folket, meningen, maalet? Der er ingen hensigt, der er intet maal. Tindesporten er meningsløs som selve livet, - derfor kan dens trolddom aldrig dø.
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- Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!
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- Author George Mallory
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My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders.
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