Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.