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

“Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?”

“Mountain is mountain.”

“That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could h...”

“[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in hig...”

“Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.”