The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved.

Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find the strength to rise up.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books

Great things are done when men and mountains meet

So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life’s expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.