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Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine. -- Andy Serkis
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength. -- Samina Baig
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. -- Edmund Hillary
Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. -- Annie Smith Peck
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides. -- Edmund Hillary
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering. -- Patrick Stewart
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really. -- Edmund Hillary
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction. -- Virginia Postrel
Mountaineering is a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its own particular charm. One is constantly searching for something never to be found. -- Hermann Buhl
Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering. -- Jon Krakauer
Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. -- Ernest Hemingway
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. -- George Leigh Mallory
If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues. -- Jerzy Kukuczka
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat. -- Ed Viesturs
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit. -- Edmund Hillary
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers -- Galen
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers. -- Galen Rowell
In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain. -- Frank Smythe
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there. -- Olaus Murie
For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top -- Isabelle Huppert
For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top. -- Isabelle Huppert
[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 high places become part of the story. -- Rebecca Solnit
In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms. -- Tamae Watanabe
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering. -- Doug Scott
I don't deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty. -- Walter Bonatti

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