The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

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.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.