Climbing Mountains Quotes
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“I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.”
― Prince of Thorns
― Prince of Thorns
“Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal
seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
through freezing - a pleasant one.”
― The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent
seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
through freezing - a pleasant one.”
― The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent
“I hope you know that you are not alone, and in those hours when you feel that you are, just know there are other people out there — singing the same melodies of wanderlust, climbing over mountains in the dark, and waking in the night to stare at the moon, thinking of this large world and dreaming — just like you”
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“On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.”
― Ringworld
― Ringworld
“Many people often ask God for a sign, believing that the sign will be smooth sailing, perfect windspeed, moderate temperatures... so when the winds dance and the waves sing and the temperatures confuse, they think that God's not there anymore. They believe that God is saying, "Watch out! Don't go there!" But the thing is, when something is good, it's not smooth sailing and perfect windspeed and moderate temperatures that are the signs to look out for! When something is good, it has mountain ranges, precipices, cliffs, eagles, tombstones covered in ivy and lily of the valley, mountain goats and a wind so close to the mouth of God that it shakes your flesh to its very core! So when they begin to hop on the precipices and hear the eagles' call— they think God isn't there! They think God is saying "Watch out!" They too often fail to traverse the ivy-encrusted tombstones, to tremble and quiver in beauty under God's breath. Don't run away.”
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“too young to live, too old to die”
― Island Adventures: Disconnecting in the Caribbean and South Pacific
― Island Adventures: Disconnecting in the Caribbean and South Pacific
“My Everest is not your Everest. Your Everest is not mine. We all have an Everest. Each of us. Sometimes the peak is literally Mount Everest but most times it lies deep within us, figuratively occupying a mountainous inner space. It calls us to rise up, to do what we formerly labeled as impossible, and to be who we deeply and desperately want to be. I know that I have found an Everest when my soul furiously pokes me repeatedly until I listen. Heeding this call to passionate adventure of any sort initiates a journey of intense immense proportion that changes every molecule of my being.”
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“Learn well how to climb because you will come across with many hills and mountains in your short life!”
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“The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.”
― 8000 Metres: Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains
― 8000 Metres: Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains
“Ada kebijaksanaan dalam mendaki gunung, Gunung mengajarkan kita untuk lebih sadar bahwa betapa kecilnya kita diantara indah cipta Tuhan. Memang sepantasnya kita menaklukkan diri dulu, menaklukkan ego yang senantiasa mengarahkan kita ke puncak kesombongan. Selalu bersyukur bahwa makhluk sekecil kita akan mampu berdiri dipuncak keberhasilan atas ridhaNYA. Diatas kemampuan kita ada yang masih lebih mampu begitupun diatas kehendak kita masih ada yang lebih berkehendak.
Semoga kita selalu dijadikan orang yang selalu bersyukur”
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Semoga kita selalu dijadikan orang yang selalu bersyukur”
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“So if someone who seeks or has power says, "Let's jump off the cliff!" your response should not be, "Let's not jump off the cliff," it should be, "No, let's climb the mountain and attain a greatness never hitherto seen in the annals of humanity history".”
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“Years ago, when I first started mountaineering, I was impetuous, heady, rash, impatient, prideful and arrogant. I in my mind, was both impervious and impregnable, "nothing could stop me," or so I thought. Then, I came face-to-face with Mount Everest for the first time, and she quickly humbled me. She forced me to do away with the false machismo, the fake toughness and the phony bravado, and in return, she blessed me with the gifts of comity, heightened inner-peace, calmness, and steadiness of both spirit and mind. Those blessings were gifts, gifts that rewrote my limbic system, and altered my pneuma. I now climb with laser clarity and aplomb. Less ardor, more piety born of apathetic ataraxia.”
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“There's a temptation to want to summit the summit of the mountain. [...] One of the greatest temptations for a man is the desire for it to be DONE. Just get to the end and be done. And that's not life. That's not actual fulfillment either. There is no end. There is no done.”
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“Think of it as a blind date. All you initially have
in common at the bottom is the reason you’re there, the top of the mountain.”
― The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
in common at the bottom is the reason you’re there, the top of the mountain.”
― The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
“The rhythm of moving through the mountains has a way of wearing away the rough edges of the ego.”
― The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
― The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
“It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it.”
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“The Edge by Stewart Stafford
Hanging on the jagged edge,
Taunted to plunge in the deep,
Surfing wild on stormy winds,
Cold sweat at pain's brief sweep.
Nestled in some whirling gusts,
Gooseflesh skin from chilly hands,
A mask for a mimicry ball,
An everyman's muddled land.
Rising from some inner call,
Not a fugazi in Kismet's window.
The path still fogged from sight,
I climb higher, to touch the rainbow.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
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Hanging on the jagged edge,
Taunted to plunge in the deep,
Surfing wild on stormy winds,
Cold sweat at pain's brief sweep.
Nestled in some whirling gusts,
Gooseflesh skin from chilly hands,
A mask for a mimicry ball,
An everyman's muddled land.
Rising from some inner call,
Not a fugazi in Kismet's window.
The path still fogged from sight,
I climb higher, to touch the rainbow.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
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