Quotes About Mountaineer

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

the mountaineer's breakfast" (coffee and aspirin).

A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

the tragic death of a famous lady mountaineer,

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom on the mountaineerÖ Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The wind will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of mountaineers different from the eyes of other men.

A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Not many know that I'm a mountaineer, and my love for adventure will never die.

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family,- a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.

Then, after a long fireside rest and a glance at my note-book, I cut a few leafy branches for a bed, and fell into the clear, death-like sleep of the tired mountaineer. Early