Best Mountain Climbing Quotes

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!

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

I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

If you are under control you’re going too slow.

What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one’s ability is.

The mountains were there and so was I.

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.

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

Mountain climbing was my original sport … and I’ve never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It’s like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can walk on the ground by yourself, but if you want to climb Mount Everest, you need a guide.

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Going to the mountains is going home.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news