Quotes About Mountaineering

Even in 1922, on Everest, the expedition leader, General Charles Bruce, in a confidential summary, described Mallory as 'a great dear but forgets his boots on all occasions.

I don't need to come back to Everest.

I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.

Europe's ranges looked Lilliputian in comparison. Eckenstein's men crossed vast glaciers, covered in huge rocks, riven by streams up to 100 ft wide. In Switzerland a typical glacier might culminate with a rocky terminal moraine a few hundred feet high, but here, according to Crowley, some of them soared up to 1500 ft.

I'm not a fearful person," Joss said, invoking her mountaineering bona fides. "If K2 doesn't scare me, Florida does not scare me." (She had not climbed K2.)