Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.
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.
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.
I was the world in which I walked.
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?
The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.
If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.
We must walk before we run.
I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
When the path ignites a soul, there's no remaining in place. The foot touches ground, but not for long.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.
I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.