A Quote by Edmund Hillary

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

Edmund Hillary

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Edmund Hillary
New Zealander - Explorer
July 20, 1919 - January 11, 2008

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

Edmund Hillary

I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.

John Muir

A tourist follows a trail; a mountaineer finds one.

Reinhold Messner

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

John Muir

Not many know that I'm a mountaineer, and my love for adventure will never die.

Divyanka Tripathi

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

John Muir

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.

John Muir

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

Sam Heughan

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

John Muir

My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

Reinhold Messner

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

Tim Cope

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

John Muir

Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

Wojciech Kurtyka

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.

Sam Heughan

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

John Muir

A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.