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“Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.”

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Author:Robert Genn

“I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.”

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Author:Lincoln Hall

“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

“It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.”

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Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.”

Dangerous Mountain Extremes Desert Jungle Dangerous Places

Author:Bear Grylls

“When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?”

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Author:Susan Estrich

“A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but Ill stop short of calling it foolish.”

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Author:Claire Cameron

“I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.”

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Author:Annie Smith Peck

“I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.”

Thinking May Littles Difficult Challenges Deals Dangerous Mountain Overcoming Satisfaction Enjoyment Climbs

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan