Quotes About Adventure

None of those climbs, including my own, match what Mallory and Irvine did in June 1924. Mallory who gave the mountain a spirit that cannot be captured with radio or telephone equipment, nor seen with telephoto lenses or satellite pictures. Daring to attempt the impossible, risking everything for a dream, and refusing to capitulate in the face of adversity, Mallory, to me, personifies heroism.

I've always gone on the stage and told my stories. I am adventurer and a bard; I come home and I tell my story. Above all, I am a self-made man.

Ich hatte keinen Lebensplan. Die Begeisterung für ein Leben als Abenteurer hatte mich früh schon beflügelt, sie trieb mich immer weiter an, ließ mich dafür kämpfen, selbstbestimmt leben zu dürfen.

Zu wie vielen Horizonten ich auch aufgebrochen bin, die Belohnung lag jeweils im Streben selbst.

The passion I have for what could be viewed as a futile pursuit has made me strong, and it is this that gives me the confidence required to lead a self-determined life.

Tour operators and professional guides, more concerned with profit than with safety, have turned a spiritual quest into a cold-blooded accomplishment. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic, everyone knows the price of the highest peak in the world, and no one knows its value.

Having everythin is boring; I'm convinced of that. Once you have something - knowledge, skills, possessions - or have achieved something - climbing Mount Everest, for example - it becomes banal.

Wild tehdy nevÄ›dÄ›l nic. A to nic naplnil vírou.

Je vd??ný, že se nikdo nevzteká, a odpoledne opravuje pal?áky. NÄ›kolik muž? ho pÃ…â"¢i tom ml?ky sleduje. HorÅ¡í by bylo, myslí si, kdyby z té naÅ¡í jeskynÄ› už nikdo nevylezl. PÃ…â"¢ece jenom je trochu uklid?ující sledovat, jak jim roste odvaha jenom proto, že se dívají, že nÄ›co dÄ›lám.

Und so wie die Freiheit in unserer Gesellschaft an Strahlkraft zugunsten der Sicherheit verliert, ist es auch mit dem Abenteuer. Vielleicht sind wir Menschen so wenig frei wie unsterblich. Unfreiheit aber lässt sich abschütteln, teilweise wenigstens, wenn wir die Freiheit zur Selbstbestimmung wagen.

jede freie Entscheidung als Fehlentscheidung herausstellen kann, bei Grenzgängen oft mit tragischen Folgen.

I define myself as a seminomad, so my world consist of transient places, where being at home is not possible.

Und so wie meine bloße Existenz mich einst weitergetragen und mir die Kraft gegeben hatte, extreme Bergtouren zu wagen, begann ich jetzt wieder zu träumen von einem Gesamtkunstwerk. Zuletzt wieder im Alleingang. Als wäre ich dazu bestimmt vorauszugehen, den Weg festzulegen, die Welt neu zu erfinden. So habe ich einst die Ziele in der Wildnis vorgegeben. Jetzt wurde eine kulturelle Aufgabe daraus.

I could tell that he had heard about me and that I would soon be a figure in the stories he would tell his grandchildren. A strange figure: The man who kept asking everyone about the yeti, and who himself looked like one. I did not want to know that tale, but I knew that it meant that the tale of the yeti - in some form - would exist forever. Storytellers die; their stories live on.

Ich war nie ein Wilder: zwar unangepasst, ein Sucher im Sinne von Geisteshaltung, Ideal, Ästhetik und Neugier. Und ich gehe weiterhin in die Wildnis: um einer gezähmten Welt zu entkommen, der wahren Menschennatur auf der Spur.

I am a fool who with his longing for love and tenderness runs up cold mountains.

After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here.

Freedom equals your capacity to live in the unknown

Self-confidence is the result of taking risks

couldn't go home, she couldn't go to a friend. Getting cash and checking into a hotel would take care of the immediate problem, but not the long-term one. Ultimately, she needed to get out of town, to get as far out of Atlanta as she possibly could at the moment. Her brow furrowed. But where could she possibly— Suddenly a phrase emblazoned on a nearby awning snagged her attention. Are you ready for the time of your

Still, agreeing to an adventure and getting involved with Lou were two entirely different things. He only hoped that she understood

I don't want to know where Semco is headed. It doesn't unnerve me to see nothing on the company's horizon. I want Semco and its employees to ramble through their days, to use instinct, opportunity, and ingenuity to choose projects and ventures.

For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.

Hoi, hoi u embleer hrair! M'saion ule' hraka vair!