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“Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.”

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”

“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”

Source: The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.”

“Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.”

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Author:Fritz Zwicky

“Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain”

“Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.”

“I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.”

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Author:Junko Tabei

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

“The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.”

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Author:Stacy Allison

“You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.”

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Author:Willi Unsoeld