quotes about Mountain Climbing
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The mountains were there and so was I.
-- Maurice HerzogSource : 1952 His reason for becoming a mountain climber. Quoted in Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (1952, translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith).
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If you are under control you're going too slow.
-- Parnelli Jones -
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
-- Roland Smith