Quotes about mountains, travel and wildlife are my collection. Quotes and statuses about mountains Quotes about the Caucasus mountains

I'm not going to conquer the mountains - they are as much a part of the world as people. I conquer myself.
Wanda Rutkevich

There's no reason to stop
I go sliding.
And there are no such peaks in the world,
What can't be taken.
Vladimir Vysotsky

Winter high-altitude ascents are a sophisticated way of suffering in the mountains.
Wojtek Kurtyka

Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.
Guy de Maupassant

The day when you take full responsibility for your own future and stop looking for excuses for doubts will be the day you start moving to the heights.
Jay Simpson

Everyone wants to live on top of a mountain, but happiness and growth happens when you climb it, not when you have already reached the top.
life wisdom

In order to understand about yourself, talk with a stone in the mountains ...
Indian proverbs and sayings

The man who is at the very top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.
Confucius

Dawn in the mountains is the best event that can happen to a person.
Max Fry

My father believed that a walk in the mountains was equivalent to going to church.
Aldous Huxley

If you are sitting somewhere in the Himalayas and silence surrounds you - this is the silence of the Himalayas, but not yours. You have to find your own Himalayas within yourself.
Osho

We are born, we suffer, we die, and the mountains stand unshakable.
Paulo Coelho. On the banks of the Rio Piedra I sat down and wept

From the top of the mountain you can better see how insignificant everything below is. Our victories and our sorrows are no longer so important. What we have gained or lost lies down there. From the height of the mountain you see how vast the world is and how wide the horizons are.
Paulo Coelho

A climber's age is not long... That's why I'm a speleologist...
Proverb cavers

There is neither honesty nor deceit in the mountains. They are just dangerous.
Reinhold Messner

Robert Piercing

This world is mountains, and our actions are screams: the echo from our cry in the mountains always returns to us.
Rumi

Climb higher and jump into the abyss. Wings will appear during the flight.

Ray Bradbury

In this life, it doesn't matter how you fall. It matters how you get up.
Sharon Stone

Where did you rest?
- In Turkey. All inclusive. And you?
- In the mountains. Everything is off...

The mountains fascinate and enchant, after such a rest, another one is generally needed.

Mountains are the best healer for doubts and depressions.

Mountains help to go higher, higher and higher...

Mountains are good. When you are here, all the bad things remain below, and it becomes so easy on the soul.

For some, mountains are overcoming, a small victory over oneself, which for a moment allows one to forget about the everyday life. For photographers, it's an inspiration. They drink it in huge gulps of rarefied air and blue sky, trying to capture a moment of life at least in a photograph.

If you don't like mountains, then you just haven't been there.

The desire to conquer peaks makes a person more solid and persistent.

When you reach the top, keep climbing.

Who ever conquered the peaks, then fell in love with the mountains forever.

Don't be afraid to go to the mountains, be afraid to never go there.

Do not look for happiness beyond the mountains, beyond the valleys, climb the mountains - there is a real fairy-tale world.

There is no peak in the world that perseverance would not conquer.

People break their legs on bumps, not mountains.

On the tops of the mountains you will find only the peace that you yourself bring there.

To fall in love with the mountains is just to go there once.

The way up is hard, but the view is good.

Looking at a mountain from below is one thing, but being on an equal footing with it at least once is the lot of the strong.

Only the mountains will allow you to feel absolutely free.

I think the only way to lose weight with green tea is to climb mountains to collect it yourself ...

Facts about a different history of Russia The famous French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon de Anville (1697-1782) published more than 200 maps. In the preface to the Atlas of Maps of China, Chinese Tartaria and Tibet (1737) we find a lot of interesting information about the life of the people of that era. In addition, a description of seemingly unbelievable facts, which, with a little common sense, explain and are themselves interpreted by many seemingly unrelated, non-academic scientific hypotheses. Below is an excerpt from the description of the life and beliefs of the Bukharians. This is not a literal translation, but rather an incomplete paraphrase, citing the most interesting passages. The map shows Bolshaya Bukhara, bordering Malaya in the southeast. Here we will talk about the inhabitants of the latter. The Frenchman distinguishes Greater Bukhara from Lesser Bukhara. They are separated by the Hindu Kush (?) (Parapomisus). The preface to the French Atlas contains unique information about Russia. Here is a description of the borders of Malaya Bukhara: In the east it borders with Mongolia and the Chinese deserts, in the south with the deserts of India, in the west with Greater Bukhara and Persia, and in the north with Mongolia and Eastern Kalmykia. The country stretches for almost 1000 km. For reference: in the photo Bukhara is located under the 40th parallel. The control device of Malaya Bukhara is curious. Like the name of one of its rulers, Gypsy-Araptan (possible reading and Tsigan or Zigan. Zigan-Araptan), the nephew of Bosto-Kham (Khan? Bosto-Cham), who conquered the country together with his Kalmyks. For every 10 families or houses there was one foreman, ten foremen reported to their boss. The last ten, already in charge of 1000 families or houses, reported to the Grand Governor, elected from the crown princes of Bukhara. Heads of all levels were obliged to report all incidents to a higher head, to resolve disputes in the territory under their jurisdiction. Thanks to such an organization, peace and order reigned in the country. The Bukharans were not a warlike people, but at the call of the governor they could quickly gather 20,000 soldiers, one out of every ten houses. The armament consisted of bows, swords, spears. Some had guns or arquebuses. The richest could afford to wear chain mail. The houses are made of stone and there is little furniture. Food for the Bukharians was prepared by slaves captured or bought in neighboring countries, incl. Kalmykia and Russia. Further, the author describes something resembling ... dumplings (“chopped meat wrapped in dough, the product is shaped like a croissant”). In winter, if Bukharians went on trips, then dumplings were perfectly preserved in the cold. Moreover, the cooking process is also described: frozen dough with minced meat was cooked in boiling water! Here are Siberian dumplings for you. By the way, Bukharians everywhere used tablecloths. And from drinks - tea, black tea with the addition of salt, milk and butter. The preface to the French Atlas contains unique information about Russia. The description of the appearance of the inhabitants is curious. Most of them are swarthy and black-haired, but it is not uncommon to find white-skinned, slender and beautiful residents (fort blancs, beaux & bienfaits). Isn't this fact the best confirmation of the version expressed by A. Klyosov, N. Levashov and many others that the Aryans were divided in Siberia, and one part of them, having circled the Himalayas from the west, populated the north of Hindustan, the east of Iran and nearby regions?! ! Another debunked myth about the primacy of French cosmetics: de Anville describes women who paint their nails red, making varnish from a plant (Kena). Also, the Frenchman was amazed to find that all the inhabitants of Lesser Bukhara wear ... shorts! A fact far from characteristic of the French themselves of that time. And soon for the future of France. Residents were noted to wear unusually light leather boots made in Russia. But there is no limit to surprise at how deeply the cultures of the Russians themselves and the Bukharans of that time intersect. “The only money they have is a copper penny (Copeiks, with a capital letter in the text, and -s in French indicates a plural number), weighing one spool (Solotnik), about a third of an ounce.” And let them not tell us after such facts that there was no single state of Tartaria, in which the Russians were the state-forming people! And that the Russians lived in pits covered with branches... And now, perhaps, the most interesting, even shocking somewhere. Let's not forget that this atlas was compiled by order of the Jesuits who hunted in China. The order was given in 1709. Therefore, the nature of the following retelling is dictated, of course, by the desire of customers. “The language and religion of the Bukharians differs from the neighboring Persian and Turkic ones, but in some ways they have something in common with them. The inhabitants have their own Al-Koran (Alcoran), which is the essence of the Christian Old Testament, where many places have been changed or falsified. Stop, we were taught in a completely different way: the Bible is one thing, and the Koran is something else. This is first. And, secondly, let's use common sense. Who actually truncated the texts of the Old Testament, who falsified them, the Jesuits with other Catholics, or the peoples of the deserts and mountains far from Rome and Byzantium? Once again: it is more logical to assume that among, for example, the Bukharians, there is hardly a sufficient number of Christian theologians capable of fundamentally reworking the texts of the Old Testament. Whereas nearby or in the Vatican itself, in numerous monasteries and religious schools in Europe, such specialists are at least a dime a dozen. Of course, the Jesuits insist that their version of the Old Testament is the true one. But is it really so? Are the lines of this atlas evidence that just the original version was preserved in the desert, and the Jesuit-Catholic version is a fake?! There is even more here. It's time to remember N. Vashkevich, who was always amazed by the fact that it is and only the Russian language that can explain the etymology of those Arabic words (and to an even greater extent - the Arabic language the meaning of words and expressions that we do not understand), about which the Arabs themselves cannot say anything can. One such word is the Koran. “In general, it must be said that outside of Islam, the general idea is that Islam begins with Mohammed. This is fundamentally wrong. Muslims themselves say that their religion begins with Ibrahim. It's just that people did not immediately understand his instructions. In the Arabic sense, Allah first gave the book to the Jews. But they didn't understand her. This is the Old Testament. Then God gave another book. Christians. But they weren't up to the mark either. Allah had to give another book, this time in the original language, in Arabic. This book is called the Quran, which means "reading" in Arabic. But, if you read this word the other way around, in Russian, you get NAROK, which means TESTAMENT in Russian (V. Dahl). And that's not all. If you read the title of the book of VEDAS, in Arabic, you will get again "TESTAMENT" (وع د ВЪД). So there were not two covenants, but four!!! One way or another, it is advisable to distinguish between Islam and Mohammedanism…” But the last phrase of Vashkevich is clearly illustrated in the text of the atlas: “The Bukharians believe that the Al Koran was given to them not by Mohammed, but by God himself, who transmitted the book through Moses and the prophets. However, they are convinced that Mohammed gave many explanations on the book and illuminated the moral side contained in it. All this they are forced to recognize and follow it.” Wow, because N. Vashkevich definitely could not read this text, because he does not speak French, and his conclusions coincide with the one written by an eyewitness 300 years ago! No, it was not in vain that the crescent moon was placed on the crosses of old Orthodox churches, no matter how the clergy today explain this fact ... Let's pay tribute to Fomenko and Nosovsky, who asked many questions about the connection between Russia and Arab artifacts in its history. However, we will not go deep and find out why in A. Nikitin's "Journeys beyond the Three Seas" Russian freely changes into Arabic script and then vice versa, but let's get acquainted with the cartographer's story about the Bukhara version of the birth of Christ. “So, the Holy Virgin was a poor orphan when her distant relatives decided who would take her in. They could not agree and then they cast lots: a feather was thrown into a jug of water, which soon sank. In turn, everyone lowered their finger into the water, and the one who pulled out a finger with a feather sticking to it took the girl to be brought up. Zakaria won. Once he was absent for three days on business, locking the girl in the house and completely forgetting about her. When he returned, he was very afraid that she had either already died or was dying. What was his astonishment when, in a locked house, he found a table bursting with food. According to the girl, God himself sent it to her. When she was 14 years old, she began to have natural female problems. The girl ran into the forest and began to swim in the forest lake. Then an angel descended to her, who announced that the girl would soon give birth. As a result, her son, Isaiah, grew up, became a famous prophet and learned many sciences. However, he was extremely unloved in his hometown, they simply hated him. And this hatred was so high that one day two robbers were hired to kill Isaiah at any cost. God, knowing this, took him to his heaven, and gave the criminals the image of Isaiah. The people dealt with the last two themselves…” How fundamentally different from the current Jesuit version that God is so cruel that he allowed his own Son to be martyred! Here again you ask yourself the question: who really falsified the Old Testament? Next consideration. According to the Frenchman, in every Bukhara house there was a copy of the Al Koran or the Old Testament with an unusual text for us. Still surprising is the equal sign between these books, a sign set at least three centuries ago. Those. these are by no means Catholics, not Franciscans or Jesuits, who brought these specimens to the outskirts of the Christian world. Remember the population estimate? 20,000 warriors, one out of every 10 houses, which means a minimum of 200,000 houses. So many copies of the book! For that time - breathtaking numbers of books ... printing or rewriting? This means that the source of the texts is somewhere relatively close. Again, we recall the hypothesis of Fomenko and Nosovsky, as well as numerous other versions and works, which say that Christ is either Andrew the First-Called, or someone else, but it is a Russian person, someone who grew up in the environment of Russian Civilization. As we are assured, the first large-circulation printed book in Russia, The Apostle, appeared in the middle of the 16th century. However, logically speaking, if in our history, academic history, there was no Tartaria, then, of course, there was no printing in Tartaria, right? Then how else to explain the presence, if not hundreds of thousands, but at least tens of thousands of copies of the Old Testament, the content of which, according to Catholics, is far from canonical? And this is only for Little Bukhara alone, and there was also Great (Great) Bukhara in the neighborhood, there were other countries not far away, the same Kalmykia, not to mention the vast expanses of Siberia, where at that time there were a great many cities. Who printed books for them, Roman and Byzantine apostates? After all, you can’t rewrite such a quantity, especially in the desert ... There are a lot of interesting things on a dozen pages of the preface to the atlas of China, Chinese Tartaria and Tibet. For example, that polygamy among the population was allowed, but they looked at it extremely disapprovingly. That Bukharians are convinced that God lives not only in the sky, that he is everywhere. That a husband, dissatisfied with his wife, could send her back to her parents, while he is obliged to give her all her property, including gifts made to her during her life together. And a woman could leave her husband, although she could not take anything with her. A lot of interesting things, but let's, nevertheless, try to comprehend what has already been written. It already has too much food for thought. The whole universe...

In life, a person feels like a hostage to haste and fuss. He constantly yearns for freedom and tries to find out if it exists at all. There is freedom, and it lives in the mountains. Mountains are the place where you can “soar in the clouds”, you can admire them ad infinitum. Many famous philosophers and writers were not indifferent to the mountains, they specially came to the mountain slopes and admired the indescribable landscapes, they inspired them to work.

Many people puzzle for a long time over where it is best to spend a vacation. Most still prefer the sea coast, but in the end it turns out that after the rest you still have to rest. Oddly enough, but it turns out that way, because in seaside resorts there will be essentially the same fuss as in megacities, with the only difference being that the landscapes on the coast will be more beautiful and the climate cleaner. Whether it's a matter of the mountains ... A vacation in the mountains is an unforgettable time when you can enjoy true freedom and real beauty. Even in the most crowded mountain resorts, tourists do not interfere with each other and can really relax.

The mountains not only give a wonderful vacation, but also test human qualities. They test tourists for courage and endurance. Mountains teach you how to achieve your goals. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking at its top, it seems to a person that it is unrealistic to climb there, however, interest and perseverance help him to climb. Step by step, a person overcomes obstacles and conquers heights. Climbing a mountain, like nothing else, inspires new exploits, gives confidence and charges you with self-confidence.

Quotes and Sayings

With enough determination, any idiot can climb this mountain,” Hall remarked. - But the trick is to get back down alive (Jon Krakauer).

To reach the goal in the mountains is not only to climb to the top, but also to go down.

Lies have no place in the mountains. The masks of deception are shattered by their stone character.

Mountain air cleanses the body not only from various ailments, but also from lies.

Everyone should know their place in life.

Mountains are good. When you are here, all the bad things remain below, and it becomes so easy on the soul.

If you want to be cleansed, go to the mountains.

Mountains are not the place where you can entrust your life to others! This is the place where you can lose it!

In the mountains, human life belongs to nature and insurers.

The snowy mountains are beautiful. All the dirty and unpleasant things of the whole world are washed away by beautiful whiteness.

The snow-capped peaks of the mountains are the purest and brightest thing on earth, it is not for nothing that they are closest to heaven.

In the mountains, there are special bonds between people. That's why I'm drawn to them so irresistibly (Bear Grylls).

The strong and the weak will unite in the mountains, where they learn to help each other.

A man is looking for a man in the mountains. Friendship, joint struggle, the joy of the victory of the rational will of man over the blind forces of nature. Without friendship, without friends, there is no climbing. Even the contemplation of the great beauty of the mountains can only be complete when a friend is next to you. (Yakov Arkin).

The mountains are a great place to test friendship for strength.

Do not spit against the wind in the mountains.
- Why?
- Get an icicle in the forehead!

In life, everything returns according to the boomerang law, the mountains can prove it.

Have you ever heard how an avalanche rumbles in the mountains? Just after the avalanche rumbles, and there is absolute silence. You cease to understand where you are - it is one hundred percent. It's just very quiet... (Haruki Murakami).

Mountain silence, compared to the noise of megacities, seems unreal, nevertheless, it exists.

Aphorisms

To find out if a mountain is high, it is not necessary to climb it.

There are many ways to learn something, it is not necessary to check every fact on your own.

Nature created mountains as a punishment for people when she wanted to humiliate them.

Those who do not want to be humiliated, they climb to the top of the mountain.

The mountains call those whose soul is their size.

Mountains conquer the strongest, cowards are simply afraid of them.

The man sitting on the top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.

All achievements are given only by one's own labor.

And the high mountains do not hold back the clouds.

There are things in life that no one can change.

While the smart ones go around the mountains, others turn them off.

Everyone has their own ways to achieve goals, someone will go longer, but along the right path, and someone will not reach at all and along the short one.

Mountains build character, give Spartan education and, of course, teach you to understand people.

In the mountains, people often need help, so if you want to check on someone, you have a direct road to the mountains.

The dream of the mountain is to fly;
Unfulfilled flight
But in the form of a cloud
Her dream floats.

All dreams have their expression.

The higher up the mountain, the harder it is to walk.

The last steps on the road to victory are always the hardest.

Love is like a rare flower that grows on the very top of a mountain and requires great courage to receive it.

Just as not everyone has the courage to get a flower from the top of a mountain, soeveryone has the courage to surrender to love.

Children should cry, and mothers should calm them down - not vice versa. That is why mothers move mountains so that their children do not see their tears.

There is nothing worse when a child sees his mother's tears, then he simply ceases to believe in happiness and goodness.

Statuses

If you love me, I can move mountains. And if not, then the neck.

When a person feels that he is loved, he is ready for any exploits, if he is unnecessary, then for any crimes ...)

Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.

In youth it seems that old age is still far away, in old age it seems that he has not lived, time has flown by so quickly.

I am able to move mountains, because I know that you believe in me.

Faith in a person works wonders.

No matter how high the mountain is, any of its slopes can become a path.

You can find a way out of any situation, if there is a desire.

Remember: people don't die in the mountains, they just don't live there.

You need to live not where it is beautiful, but where the conditions are suitable for life.

If men, for the sake of women, would turn all the mountains that they promised, our world would already be a continuous plain ...

Apparently, men do not want to ruin the mountain beauties ...

For mom with a mountain, for dad with a wall, for a friend with a brick, but for herself with herself !!!

If you value your loved ones, then you are ready to stand up for them at any cost!

I woke up early in the morning and I think: I will get up - I will turn mountains. She turned on the other side ... Why intrude into nature, let them stand ...

You could just admit your laziness ...)

Better than mountains can only be mountains that you have not yet visited.

Anyone who has visited the mountains at least once will definitely want to see them again.

Everyone wants to live on the top of the mountain, not realizing that true happiness awaits him on the descent ... If you fly up to heaven, it’s scary and painful to fall, if you climb to the top of the mountain, there is a chance not to slide far ... But we often take off from happiness ...

Appreciate what you have, perhaps this is true happiness.

Mountains are an extraordinarily beautiful creation of nature. In the mountains, a person feels freedom and learns to overcome all obstacles on the path of life.

For many years now I have been collecting interesting quotes from travelers, climbers, and explorers on outdoor topics.

All this is mainly accumulated “on the table”, although sometimes it is used.

So, for example, we made a package for ours with some quotes from my collection.

But still, the bulk is “dead weight” and does not work, although many quotes, as the quintessence of the experience and views on the life of people who are great and understand firsthand in matters of travel, mountaineering, human interaction with wildlife and mountains, can be useful and interesting to many.

Some quotes can make you smile because of their naivety, for example, I liked Maurice Herzog's statement about Annapurna, and I took it to my collection. Words about the mountain were said even before the expedition to this eight-thousander began, in Russian translation they sound like this:

"As for Annapurna... this peak is easily accessible and that is why it is of only limited sporting interest."© Maurice Herzog

It is difficult to agree with this statement now, knowing that Annapurna is one of the most difficult and dangerous eight-thousanders of the planet.

Some quotes bear the imprint of the era, are the product of their time and personify the development and ideas of society, which we can look at through the prism of achievements known to us. As an example, the openly racist quote by Robert Peary

“One intelligent white man should be at the head, two whites, invited to the expedition because of their courage, determination, physical endurance and devotion to the leader, should be the arms, and dog drivers and other local residents should be the body and legs of the expedition. For the peace of mind of men, it is necessary to take women on a journey; besides this, they are in many respects as useful as men, and in strength and endurance they are often almost as good as them.

But of particular value, I think, are the thoughts expressed by great travelers, climbers and investigators on issues of preparation, organization and safety. Very often, one well-aimed and strong phrase uttered by an honored person can give much more to understand the essence of the issue than voluminous articles and verbose explanations.

My favorite quote from these is by Roald Amundsen and goes like this:

"Expedition is preparation"

In just three words, the great polar explorer was able to express the main success of any business.

Quotes about mountains and mountaineering

“In the mountains, you need to depend only on yourself, on your own strength, so it’s immoral to expect someone to help you at high altitude.” © Anatoly Bukreev

"Mountains are not stadiums where I fulfill my ambitions, they are temples where I practice my religion." © Anatoly Bukreev

“Mountains have the power to call us to their lands, this is no longer a passion, this is my destiny…” © Anatoly Bukreev

“Better mountains can only be mountains,
Which I haven't been to yet."

"Everyone needs something exceptional in an era when money can have everything." © Reinhold Messner

“A person learns through defeat, not victory, as it may seem. In order to correctly assess the situation, you need to know your limit and it can only be determined in practice. I have had failures on thirteen eight-thousanders and I want to be remembered as the mountaineer with the most failures. Records didn't interest me. If I had not failed at Dhaulagiri, Makalu and Lhotse, I would have perished long ago. I love challenges, but I know how to retreat in time. ” © Reinhold Messner

"If you go to the mountains where there is no danger, you are not a real climber." © Reinhold Messner

“Mountaineering is an archaic world, devoid of rules, and that is why the price of a mistake here is very high. The anarchy reigning around forces the climber to take responsibility for his own life. Every difficult ascent is deadly, and in that sense, mountaineering is deeply selfish.” © Reinhold Messner

“Neither am I of the opinion that a climber who dies while climbing automatically becomes a hero. The death of a climber is a tragedy. No more no less. And the only thing that can be done for the dead is to help their loved ones.” © Reinhold Messner

“For a person suffering from stress, lost in an expanding civilization, the mountains have become a kind of “playing space”, in which he can be enriched with experience and experiences that are not available to him in everyday, everyday life. Game space, game, rules of the game. Owning them is the only condition for fully enjoying an exciting lifestyle: mountaineering.” © Reinhold Messner

“Only climbers know how much willpower and courage it takes to retreat where there is at least something that would justify moving up.” © Reinhold Messner

"I am a happy man. I had a dream, and it came true, and this rarely happens to a person. Climbing Mount Everest - my people call it Chomolungma - was the innermost desire of my whole life. Seven times I set to work; I failed and started again, again and again, not with the bitterness that leads a soldier to the enemy, but with love, like a child climbing into its mother's lap. © Tenzing Norgay

“I hate grumbling and clashing over petty things when it comes to great things. When people go to the mountains, they should forget about molehills. Whoever goes to a great cause must have a great soul.” © Tenzing Norgay

“For the opportunity to go to Everest, I would accept any job, from a dishwasher to a yeti driver.” © Tenzing Norgay

“... I trained hard, trying to restore my form. I got up early in the morning, loaded my backpack with stones, took long walks in the hills around the city - this was my habit for a number of years before large expeditions. I didn't smoke, I didn't drink, I avoided feasts, which I usually like very much. And all this time I was thinking, planning, making assumptions about how my seventh trip to Everest would go. “This time you must conquer the summit,” I told myself, “Conquer or perish ..” © Tenzing Norgay

“Future generations will ask: “What kind of people first ascended to the top of the world?” And I would like the answer to be one that I don't have to be ashamed of. Everest: the highest point of not just one country, but the whole world. It was taken by the people of East and West together. He belongs to all of us. And I also want to belong to everyone, to be a brother to all people…” © Tenzing Norgay

“The summit cannot be conquered. You stand on it for a few minutes, and then the wind sweeps away your traces. © Arlen Bloom

“You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away." © Arlene Blum

“For most people, mountains are something majestic, but far from everyday life, that is, perfect harmony.” © Ueli Steck

“I often get scared, although no one believes it. But when is a person not afraid? When he does not know something or overestimates his abilities. Fortunately, this - for me to overestimate myself - did not happen to me ... ”© Uli Steck

“First of all, love the mountains. You need to know the mountains, respect them and not think that you will shower them with hats. With the mountains you need to be on "you". Whether it is a peak of the 1b category or a route of the highest category. ” © Vladimir Shataev

“I can look up at a mountain for hours. It may seem strange, but I am talking to a mountain. I try to understand whether she is waiting for me or not, will she let me in or not. © Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

“Sometimes I think that's why I go to the mountains to understand how dear gray everyday life is to me. Returning to experience the taste of a cup of hot tea after days of thirst, sleep after many sleepless nights, meeting friends after a long solitude, silence after hours spent in a terrible storm. © Wanda Rutkevich

"I'm not going to conquer the mountains - they are as much a part of the world as people are. I conquer myself." © Wanda Rutkevich

“Mountains are the way, the end is the man himself. The ultimate meaning is not in the achievement of mountain peaks, but in the improvement of man. Climbing makes sense only if the person remains in the focus of attention.” © Walter Bonnati

“I think every climber has many reasons to climb the Matterhorn. But the main reason for everyone is the same: to climb the Matterhorn” © Gaston Rebbufa

“Rising to the top, a person elevates himself and his soul, his heart and his dream. As far as the eye can see, the country of snow and rocks spreads out before him in silence and mystery. Mountains are a special world, they form part of the planet, like a mysterious, isolated kingdom, where the symbol of life is will and love. ” © Gaston Rebbufa

"Tien Shan is not a place for climbing fun!" © Gottfried Merzbacher

“A woman for a climber is the main danger. We all know this unscrupulous truth.” © Maurice Herzog

“Having crossed the limits of our powers, knowing the boundaries of the human world, we realized the true greatness of Man” © Maurice Herzog

"No victory could ever justify a deliberate game of human lives." © Maurice Herzog

"As for Annapurna... this peak is easily accessible and that is why it is of only limited sporting interest." © Maurice Herzog 1950

“I live like in a dream. Death is near, I feel. What a beautiful death for a climber! How it harmonizes with the noble passion that rules our souls! I am grateful to the summit for being so beautiful today. Her silence recalls the grandeur of a cathedral. I don't suffer at all and I don't worry. My peace of mind is terrible." © Maurice Herzog 4 June 1950.

“From time to time, at least for cheerfulness, it is useful to look up. Down, on the contrary, it is not recommended to look, since the sight of these terrifying abysses can shake the firmness of the spirit of any optimist. © Maurice Herzog

“Mountains call those whose soul is their size!” © V.L. Belilovsky

“A good climber should not only be healthy, he should be quirky and cunning, guided by one thought - to survive ...” © Vitaly Gorelik

"My partners had to be strong, humble, fast and always optimistic." © Simone Moreau

“Randomness and risk are part of our lives. In love, work, sports, etc. we take risks every day of our lives. Climbing in the mountains, of course, is much more risky than office work, but I am not attracted to a safe life instead of a deep and fulfilling one ... I prefer to be happy every day of my 36 years than to be happy on Sundays for 80 years ... ”© Simone Moro

"It's important for me to come back safe and sound, whether I win or lose, although that term isn't particularly appropriate for those who come down from above." © Simone Moreau

“Even if I have to use it, I hate climbing with oxygen. These are dishonest and unsportsmanlike climbs, and therefore I go again to those mountains where I climbed with oxygen ... ”© Simone Moreau

“Easy, fast style and a small team - that's what I love about climbing. Why? This is a more athletic and fair game between the climber and the mountain. I respect, but do not like, the attack of the peaks by large teams ... " © Simone Moro

“An ice ax and crampons instead of claws, boots and clothes complement the woolen and fatty cover, a tent instead of a cave or a hole. And oxygen is a change in nature itself, the environment .... And one more comparison - about divers. Can you dive 200 meters without scuba gear? That's right - no. And no one can, however, everyone admits that these are ABSOLUTELY different sports. And about mountaineering, for some reason, everyone is sure that there is not much difference. Paradox?" © Denis Urubko

“In general, all the most difficult moments in the mountains, however, as in ordinary life, occur in consciousness, in overcoming oneself and in relationships between people. Frost, wind, height - all this is just an attribute, the specificity of a sport, which is only a background for knowing oneself and one's friends. Everything “extreme” is changing, forgotten, but experience and feelings remain.” © Denis Urubko

“We will all be THERE ... but I want to push the deadline for leaving “as far as possible”. And for this you need to control every step, act alphabetically competently, learn from the masters. © Denis Urubko

“I believe that mountaineering should be fun, even when it gets really tight, and even when someone has to pay for the challenge. After all, if we are willing to pay such a price, then mountaineering really brings pleasure.” © Chris Bonington

“Society is very unfair to women climbers and climbing mothers. There is no such attitude towards male climbers who risk their lives in the mountains, leaving their families at home - and the public often condemns mothers who want to climb. In my opinion, both parents are equally important for the child, and therefore I do not see the difference, whether the father or mother is mountaineers!” © Edurne Pasaban

“To turn into a situation where, it would seem, there is nothing particularly dangerous is sometimes a heroic deed. Such feats are only for you. Do them. Turn back, but get the opportunity to come back here again. Not a single mountain is worth a single fingernail! © Nikolai Totmyanin

"The mountains! Their snow-white, dazzling domes against the background of unthinkable blue and deep blue - is it not in them a symbol of a human dream, the call of which has been disturbing daring souls for centuries? And isn’t each of us given his own height in the chosen work? © Mikhail Turkevich

“The higher and more difficult the peak, the more friends you meet on its slopes, no matter where in the world it is located.” © Mikhail Turkevich

“We stood on the highest peak of the planet. We climbed into this sky, overcoming frost and wind, lack of oxygen and low pressure. They climbed here, risking every minute to break, to fall under a rockfall, under an avalanche. We gave our comrades the last sip of the water so coveted here, gave each other the most convenient place in the tents, warmed our neighbor in the bivouac with our warmth, joked and sang songs when the wind tried to tear the tents into the abyss with us ... For the sake of such moments, for the sake of the opportunity to test ourselves , get to know your friends better, reach the limit of the possible and look beyond this limit - for all this it is worth going to the mountains. © Mikhail Turkevich

“Fist-sized stars pulsed above us. They broke and fell to us on the ground. Fantastic Starfall! The moon hung over the very head, and it seemed very easy to reach it by hand ... ”© Mikhail Turkevich

“What a pleasure it is to contemplate the majestic mountain ranges and be above the clouds! What else in the world can be so whole, so complete, as climbing mountains. © Konrad Gesner

“Here is the concept of front-line brotherhood, there is also the concept of mountaineering brotherhood. It really is. I have a lot of teaching experience. When newcomers, after a 20-day stay in the alpine camp, begin to disperse, they literally disperse with tears. Why? People, being in harsh climatic conditions, united by a common idea, communicate, solve a common problem. Help, mutual assistance, just being together - unites people to such an extent that the phenomenon is called brotherhood. Like in a war, when people united under the most difficult conditions, doing a significant thing, winning, losing, fighting, dying, etc.

This is an integral part of mountaineering, it is good, it pleases. I am happy that I know all the people that mountaineering has given me. That we were united by an idea. Although it was in different years, in different areas, we have not met for a long time, but what was, you can’t erase from your fate.” © Sergey Bogomolov

“When you stand on the top, especially if it is the top of an eight-thousander, mountains stretch in all directions, as far as the eye can see. It seems that the whole world is ridges covered with eternal snow and nothing else. But we know that this is not so. There, further - the seas and oceans, forests and gardens, beautiful cities ... That's how it is in my life. Mountaineering is a favorite thing, a profession, but besides it, there is family and friends, songs and books, theaters and exhibitions. All this is also very interesting and valuable to me. All this is my life.” © Sergey Bershov

“Always keep a clear head and be prepared to work in any environment and meet any surprise. To do this, you need to prepare comprehensively and constantly. And then you can enjoy the beauty of the mountains and enjoy the climb itself.” © Evgeny Vinogradsky

“I can't give you a new answer why people go to the mountains. Most still go just to climb to the top." © Edmund Hillary

“... The struggle of a person with a peak goes beyond mountaineering in its purely sporting sense. In my eyes, she is a symbol of the struggle of man with the forces of nature; it vividly expresses the continuity of this difficult battle and the solidarity of all who took part in it. … Shortly after our return from Everest, some of us had to talk to a group of students. One of them turned to me with a question: “What is the point of climbing Everest? Were you financially interested or is it just some kind of crazy?” © John Hunt

“Long attempts to conquer a difficult peak can be compared to a relay race, where each team member, having overcome his section of the path, passes the wand to the next one until the entire distance has been covered.” © John Hunt

“As long as the climber adjusts to the mountain, that is mountaineering. When he starts to adapt the mountain for his purposes, it's building work." © John Hunt

"I love peaks as a separate person, as equivalent parts of a big whole." © Herbert Tichy

"The risk must always be justified by something." © Vitaly Abalakov

“Mountaineering is a complex and dangerous multifaceted type of human activity. A rare combination of sophisticated mental and physical work in a very difficult environment. © Vitaly Abalakov

“What gives mountaineering to an individual? a prominent western climber asked half a century ago and answered like this: “He brings us back to nature, to that element with which most of us have lost direct contact. The desire to rise, boundless, spontaneous - doesn’t it take us away, as if on magical wings, somewhere far from the usual level, and with it from ordinary thoughts? © Evgeny Abalakov

“Now sparkling, joyful, calling, then formidable and angry, calling for single combat, then mysterious, with an elusive veil hiding itself and only for a moment opening with wonderful fantastic visions of a special world, a harsh, beautiful, eternally calling element of mountain peaks.” © Evgeny Abalakov

“You can be the world's greatest climber and be a selfish asshole who doesn't care about your family and friends at the same time. Or you can be the one who tries to learn something from the rivers and mountains, who gets better from there. I'm trying to be that person." © Doug Ammons.

“Climbing for me is one of the forms of knowledge that inspires me, helps me oppose my inner world to nature. It is a means to experience a state of consciousness where there is no distraction or expectation. This is an intuitive state of being, something that gives me the opportunity to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.” © Lynn Hill

“The colors of mountain sunsets are bright and unique - sometimes scarlet, purple, crimson and crimson, sometimes full of regal brilliance, when it seems that half the sky is filled with molten gold.” © Konstantin Rototaev

“Mountaineering begins where the paths end, and does not end even at the top, because it’s not enough to go up, you also have to go down. On the descent of a climber, severe trials are often guarded. © Nikolai Tikhonov

The path to the heights is open to anyone

Height who will love fearlessly

Where the ice ax rings and where the heart rings

There is born the friendship of the brave!

“…it matters how you climb, not where you climb. You know, many years ago, we in Yosemite realized that there was nothing upstairs. You climb out, and there are stones and a path down. Therefore, even then it became clear that it was important not where you climbed, but how you did it! And it is this process of “how?” compromises the rampant use of bolts. Or take, for example, Everest. The most terrifying example of the "dead end" of mountaineering development! Dozens of almost permanently installed aluminum stairs, kilometers of railings... Having climbed up, you climbed “something”, but not the Top of the World – Everest.” © Yvon Shoinard

“What matters is what you do here and now. It is important to climb the route having fun and it is not at all important to leave a mark for centuries. Who needs it, this footprint of yours on this rocky wall that mankind does not need? © Yvon Shoinard

“What space! What a charming beauty in all these snow giants, towering up to the sky! What a variety of colors and tones in these fabulous cliffs of an endless chain of mountains, lost somewhere far, far away. How deeply all this touches the soul and heart of man! He is seized by such a feeling of delight, which is beyond human strength to describe. © Sergey Kirov

“I only fear bad weather in the mountains. This is the only thing in the mountains that does not depend on us.” © Junko Tabei

“You have to go to the mountain. It is difficult, but you have to go forward, the mountain itself will not come to the base camp.” © Vladislav Terzyul

“There, at a height, closer to God, a person becomes purer and nobler” © Vladislav Terzyul

“Mountains, mountains! What magnetism is hidden in you! What a symbol of tranquility lies in each sparkling peak! The most daring legends are born near the mountains. The most human words come from the snowy heights. Some people are afraid of the mountains and claim that the mountains choke them. Aren't these people afraid of big things? © Nicholas Roerich

"Mountains are the only place where I can rest." © Igor Tamm

“Untouched nature brings incomparable spiritual peace. Added to this is the deep satisfaction of overcoming obstacles. In the mountains, friendship with comrades, sealed by dangers, is born, remaining for life. © Igor Tamm

"High-altitude mountaineering is the closest sport to astronautics" © Terman Titov

Everest is the highest pole of the earth. Getting to the top on foot, relying on my own feet and on the power of the mind, turned out to be only a little easier than landing a man on the moon. Only 16 years separated these two events. ©

F.M. Sveshnikov

“Mountaineering is a sport of difficult decisions. In the mountains you can't hide behind an empty word, here only deeds are valued. A person in mountaineering is worth exactly as much as he is worth in reality. © F.M. Sveshnikov

“At any age, you have to keep dreaming. You must try to make dreams come true. I know well that if you have a strong heart and take one small step after another, you will reach the top of the world.” © Iyuchiro Miuro

“Believe in yourself in the face of death. Fear won't do anything to you. Whether you are alive or dead, your heart beats faster than 100 beats per minute. Fears go away when you just start climbing.” © Iyuchiro Miuro

“I realized very early that someone who walks with a strong partner may never know the very essence of mountaineering, and in any case will receive only part of the emotions from climbing ... After all, he is only a follower ... if he is in the lead, he takes responsibility for the success of the enterprise, then something more opens up to him ... I see no reason why women could not lead in serious ascents ... but I also realize that if a woman takes on this role, then the participation of men in the project cannot to be out of the question." © Miriam O'Brien Underhill

"He who does not get lost in the snowy mountains will not be afraid in battle." This is the slogan of the Soviet climber. Cowardice is a lack of confidence in oneself, in one's knowledge. Such qualities as caution, attentiveness, accuracy, sometimes slowness due to careful control of the path, protection and self-protection should not be confused with cowardice.
A brave person is one who, having weighed all the difficulties and prepared accordingly to overcome them, resolutely, energetically fights for the implementation of the task, who does not get lost in difficult times; who calmly, patiently seeks the path to victory, he will always find it .. ”© Physical training of climbers I. Yukhin, 1939.

“The only way to compensate for their inferiority, their lack of self-confidence was in mountaineering. Surrendering to it completely was the only salvation for me. Now the natural course of events in my life has become the conquest of one peak after another - first in Japan, and then abroad. © Naomi Uemura

“Mountaineering is more of a mental sport than a physical one. If you really, really want to do something, then what is a little more pain for you? Just go with it." © Mark Inglis

“The call of the high mountains… Maybe this is part of man’s eternal quest, some excess of that vital energy that drives humanity from century to century in its attempt to always reach an ever higher peak of human aspirations? .. Even if the conquest of Everest becomes an ordinary event, always there are higher Everests; even if in the distant future our Earth becomes a place without secrets, there will always be other peaks to climb and other worlds to explore. For those who are ready to venture fearlessly into uncharted seas and into the unconquered peaks of human aspirations, there will never be a lack of adventure for mind and body.” © Jawaharlalu Nehru

“Let them not think, however, that climbing the highest peaks is only hard, tedious work. There are no words to describe the impression made by these giants, or to convey the feeling of the climber, who found himself on the verge of a dead kingdom, where violent wind, scorching sun and merciless frost, as well as rarefied air make all life impossible. © Evans Charles, Inviolable Kanchenjunga, M., Physical Culture and Sport, 1961

“What made both man and animal aspire to these barren heights? Dr. James Chapin, who devoted many years to studying the birds of the Congo, once found the skeleton of a Gamlin marmoset on the top of Karisimbi, many miles from its native forests. And recently I read an interesting article about a pack of hyena dogs that was seen in the glaciers of Kilimanjaro, at an altitude of almost twenty thousand feet. Perhaps man is not the only creature in this world who climbs a mountain just because she is standing in front of him. © George Schaller Year under the sign of the gorilla. M., Thought, 1968.

“... As soon as he crossed the ridge to Georgia, he abandoned the cart and began to ride: he climbed the snowy mountain (Krestovaya) to the very top, which is not at all easy; from there you can see half of Georgia as if on a silver platter, and, really, I do not undertake to explain or describe this amazing feeling; for me mountain air is a balm; to hell with the blues, the heart is beating, the chest is breathing high - nothing is needed at this moment; I would sit and watch like that for the rest of my life.” © Mikhail Lermontov

“I am far from self-praise, far from ambition and rivalry, I just want to say that mountaineering should be considered as a wonderful game in which every accident is either a mistake or negligence, and death is a real tragedy. In order to avoid a demonstration of heroism, I, like most of us, believe that it is better to wait than to rush and take risks, it is better to slow down than to suffocate, it is better to sing than to shout ... ”© Jean Franco“ Makalu ”

“We have entered into a grandiose and wonderful battle with nature, we are investing all our physical, mental and moral strength in achieving victory. In a few weeks, the battle, which took place in an atmosphere of passionate intensity and brotherly friendship, raised us above human mediocrity. © Jean Franco "Battle for Jeanne"

“When you look from the height of Pobeda Peak, it seems that the rest of the peaks squatted down.” © Lyudmila Agranovskaya

“Mountains are made in order to show a person how a dream can look like ..” © Yuri Vizbor

“Life is a continuous ascent along an untrodden path that winds along the mountain slopes ... I stand on a white mountain and look into the blue distance of the roads traveled. Ahead rises a peak under a blue hat of snow. If I manage to climb it - I will see new distances ... ”© A. Keshokov story View from the white mountain

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet..." - William Blake

“Something inside me is killing interest in playing at low limits. For me there is either a high rate or nothing. And it's eating me up." © Jerzy Kukuczka

"Mountains are a place where you can exchange life for endless bliss." © Milarepa Shepa Dorje

“Mountaineering in my life was not just a sport that gave me a good mood. This is a worldview that affirms simple truths, glorifying good things: courage and camaraderie, the desire to learn and the desire to help, devotion to the goal, the meaning and joy of daring, sensitivity and amazing courage. © Boris Delaunay

“To love is not to look at each other, but to look together in the same direction. Comrades are only those who, holding on to one rope, climb the mountain peak with common efforts and in this they find their closeness. © Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Winter high-altitude climbing is a sophisticated way of suffering in the mountains." © Wojtek Kurtyka

“Winter expeditions are the only mountaineering without the struggle of the “stars”, rivalry, competition with each other. The mountain is so difficult in winter that everyone rallies for a common goal in an atmosphere of partnership, mutual assistance and goodwill. Such an atmosphere is now preserved only in speleology and in winter Himalayan ascents. This is no longer possible to find in the summer in the Alpine ascents. © Wojtek Kurtyka

“The essence of winter Himalayan ascents is overcoming one's own pain caused by cold, discomfort and other reasons. You can trust me, it is. I believe that winter Himalayan ascents have little to do with the essence of real mountaineering, which begins where ordinary tourism ends, and a person is forced to overcome technical difficulties with the help of hands. In winter, you can't take off your mittens, so there is no question of difficult technical ascents. The combination of very low temperatures and 8000 m makes real mountaineering impossible.” © Wojtek Kurtyka

“The maxim that about the deceased is either only good, or nothing, plays an extremely negative role in understanding the catastrophe. The unadorned truth of what happened is the last gift of the departed to the living. We often ignore it (the gift), supposedly for moral reasons. And this is really immoral.” © Igor Komarov

"Freeride is a martial art where life is at stake." © Igor Komarov

“To go first is a special job. Here you are alone with the wall. Comrades mentally with you, but no one is around. Only the rope pulls down a lot, connecting you with the world of people, and the rock hangs over your head. Often the next section of the route seems impassable, and there is no longer confidence in success, and anxiety hangs over the wall like a cloud. Then, as for a convenient shelf, you grab onto the thought: you made up your mind, accepted the challenge - so drive away doubts, turn off everything extraneous from your mind, focus on the goal, you have to go through ”© Vitaliy Bodnik

“Victory in mountaineering generously gives a person the joy of victory over himself. And she also makes a comrade in a bundle your brother, and this male brotherhood is stronger than granite ”© Vitaliy Bodnik

“Many are afraid of mountains, but this is from their ignorance. The unknown is always scary. The mountains, of course, are formidable, but not insidious and not malicious. Hurry up to the mountains! You are waiting for the discovery of pristine nature. You will discover yourself.” © Vasily Kovtun

“The Caucasian mountains are much more beautiful, their peaks are pointed; the abysses separating the peaks from each other give the impression of immeasurable depth. © Douglas Freshfield

“The strongest fear arises in those moments when you realize that you are still alive and well, but you are already dead ... that is, the brain has time to fully realize that you have practically no chance of surviving.” © Valery Rozov

“I have no respect for people who walk tightrope using belay. I don't really like the fact that if you fall, you die, but that's part of what's called tightrope walking." © Philippe Petit

“The snow is hiding and waiting. Waiting for our oversight. One has only to cut the layer, maybe even shout loudly - and the slope will disappear from under the feet. We know how it happens: first a soft crack, then a rustle, and then a roar. Just a second. Before you have time to look back, you will be buried under many meters of cold and heavy snow, like cast iron. © A.Kuznetsov “Bottom of Svaneti”

“... From edge to edge, along the entire horizon, in glaciers and snows, stands the great Tien Shan system. All of it burns with golden-orange and red tones of sunset, and Khan-Tengri floats from above, like a giant faceted ruby set in a dark turquoise sky. © Semenov-Tyan-Shansky.

"The forces of the untamed nature - wind, clouds, storm and cold - find their strongest expression on the tops of the mountains, endowing the heights with the aura of wilderness in its most extreme and undisturbed state." © Bernbaum Edwin

“Snow is snow wherever it falls, and avalanches speak the worldwide language of violence…” © Montgomery Waterwater

“... After all, as long as there are mountains, there will be traces on their slopes, there will be notes on the peaks ... This is the law of a person’s struggle with mountains. And in everyone's life, sooner or later, there comes a moment when he must meet nature face to face and feel that man, even in a small number, is stronger than her. Humanity has existed for twenty thousand generations, of which nineteen thousand eight hundred generations - ninety-nine percent - have struggled with nature without the help of electricity, machines and science. In the current generations, there is still a decent amount of disturbing blood of ancestors. The word "feat" means an action that not everyone is given to perform. But those who go to the mountains, as a rule, do not think about the feat, dreaming only of enjoying the incomparable feeling of the pioneers, they want to see entire countries lying at their feet under the clouds, so that the shadow from the hand extends hundreds of kilometers and the purple sky is towards them. a little closer than to other people ... And let the voices disappear from the whirlwind for a while and leave people alone with the mountains. For mountains and people are a continuous battle. © Evgeny Iordanishvili

“I only know three real sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing and car racing. The rest of the sports are games." © Ernest Hemingway

“In the struggle with the summit, in striving for the immensity, a person wins, acquires and affirms, first of all, himself. In the extreme tension of the struggle, on the verge of death, the Universe disappears, ends next to us. Space, time, fear, suffering no longer exist. And then everything can be available. Like on the crest of a wave, when, during a violent storm, a strange, great calmness suddenly reigns in us. This is not spiritual emptiness, on the contrary, it is the warmth of the soul, its impulse and aspiration. And then we realize with certainty that there is something indestructible in us, a force that nothing can resist.” © Lucien Devi

“In the mountains they do not walk with their feet, in the mountains they walk with their heads.” © folk wisdom

“A bad road is one from which the traveler will surely fall, and his body cannot be found. The good road is the one from which the traveler falls, but his corpse can be found and buried. And the beautiful road is the one from which the traveler may not fall ”© folk wisdom

“Remember, traveler, in the mountains you are like a tear on the eyelash of Allah.” © folk wisdom

"Everest is a bird that has flown higher than other birds."© folk wisdom

"The man who is on the very top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky." © Confucius

Quotes about travel, expeditions and wildlife

"An expedition is a preparation" © Amundsen Roald

“Willpower is the first and most important quality of a skilled researcher. Only by knowing how to control his will, he can hope to overcome the difficulties that nature raises in his path. © Amundsen Roald

“What is still unknown to us on our planet puts some kind of oppression on the consciousness of most people. This unknown is something that man has not yet conquered, some permanent proof of our impotence, some unpleasant challenge to dominance over nature. © Amundsen Roald

"Forethought and caution are equally important: foresight - in order to notice difficulties in time, and caution - in order to prepare in the most thorough way for their meeting." © Amundsen Roald

“It’s bad to linger at one fire for a long time: your eyes get tired of looking at the same thing, your ears go deaf. Need to go. Turbidity does not hold in fast water ... "© Ulukitkan

“When people ask me why I go on this or that trip, I usually answer: I don’t know, b it really is. After all, if I knew what awaits me, I would not set off on the road. © Jacques-Yves Cousteau

"Only impossible missions succeed." © Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“Dark cold night, wrapped in a blanket, I sit motionless on the shore and listen to the fountains of smooth whales. They are very close. Although it is difficult to distinguish their massive forms in the dark, I know that they swim close to the coast, sometimes touching the bottom with their belly in shallow water. But they jump out about two hundred meters from me. Their huge bodies with a terrible noise fall into the water. In the intervals between bursts, deep breaths of whales are heard: for me, this powerful choral concert is the most beautiful music in the ocean. This is how my first night in Patagonia goes…” © Philippe Cousteau

“I believe that there are neither heights nor depths that a person with the help of Reason could not reach.” © John Hunt

“Polar night, you look like a woman, a delightful, beautiful woman with the noble features of an antique statue, but also with her marble coldness. On your high forehead, clear as pure ether, there is not a trace of sympathy for the petty sorrows of the human race, on your pale beautiful cheeks - not a trace of feeling ... I am exhausted by your cold beauty, I crave life, warmth, light! Let me come back either a winner or a beggar - It's all the same to me! But let me come back and start living again.” © Fridtjof Nansen

“We should agree with our experience that you cannot get real wealth with the help of an army, you cannot win it with the help of a sling or a bomb that can fly around the world fifteen times and hit us in the back of the head, and not just our enemies. The real treasures are on enemy soil and not in a bank. You can’t put them on the scales and you won’t see them with a simple eye, because you have to look for them inside your own head. What is stored in the soul cannot be taken away. © Thor Heirdahl

"Boundaries? Didn't see one. True, I heard that they are in the minds of some people. © Thor Heirdahl

“Really, why make a fuss about something that has been done? I never only reminisce about the past. There is too much to do in the future!” © Edmund Hillary

“Many of us in our youth try to prove to ourselves that we are capable of overcoming unusual situations. For me, such a situation was an autonomous life in the forest. Soon I realized that I can kill an animal or a bird, use mushrooms, berries, but why? Everything turned out to be a more difficult task: you need to shoot what you see, turn what you see into visible images. So I shoot nature all my life. ” © Vadim Gippenreiter

“Romance is essential in human life. It is she who gives a person divine powers to travel beyond the ordinary. © Fridtjof Nansen

"Victory awaits the one who is doing well, and this is called luck." © Roald Amundsen

“Winter is not an enemy, it is a great helper, throwing bridges over the seas, covering the bare stones of the mountains and smoothing out the clefts. And as soon as the sleigh ride makes the trip possible, you are irresistibly drawn into the distance, new plans are born, and you are just waiting impatiently for the frost to get stronger. © Knud Rasmussen

“... if water is more important than food, then hope for a person is more important and more necessary than water.” © Alain Bombard

“Let's thank those who did not believe us! Without them, we would never have known the joy of victory!” © Alain Bombard

“Victims of legendary shipwrecks who died prematurely, I know it wasn’t the sea that killed you, it wasn’t hunger that killed you, it wasn’t thirst that killed you! Swinging on the waves to the plaintive cries of seagulls, you died of fear. © Alain Bombard

“The romance of distant wanderings, contemplation of the surrounding nature, immersion in it are combined in me with the desire for sports records” © Marina Galkina

“Traveling alone without means of communication is an exciting thing. It is without means of communication, I emphasize. There is an undoubted share of risk in this and the sharpness of sensations, the fullness of life are guaranteed. Everything depends on you, on your strengths, your skills, dexterity. You are given the right to choose any path, you have the last word. You feel real freedom. Only in such a journey do you completely break away from civilization, merge more closely with nature, understand your insignificance and defenselessness ”© Marina Galkina

“Frankly speaking, a traveler needs to be born, and one should set off into the distance only in the years of full strength” © Petr Kozlov

“The most favorite place both in Russia and in the world is Kamchatka. There is a unique nature. In general, I am more interested in traveling around the country than abroad .... a person cannot love without knowing. All our lives we love the place where we grew up, because we absorbed it from childhood, grew up with these trees and this grass. Russia is very little known - I myself discover it anew for myself every time. © Yuri Senkevich

“Rivers are a gift to us. Water is a metaphor for the flow of time, and everyone has their place in the flow. © Doug Ammons.

“My worst enemy on the way to my goal is fear. I am a very cowardly person and, like all cowardly people, I strive to conquer my fear. Victory over fear makes me happy….. I want to be stronger than my own fear, for this I look for danger again and again.” © Reinhold Messner

“I am Sisyphus, that all my life I can roll up my stone, that is, myself, without reaching the peak, since there can be no peak in knowing oneself.” © Reinhold Messner

“I don’t remember when I freed myself from religious feelings, I only know one thing: since then it has become more difficult for me to convince myself that I am not alone in the world, not abandoned.” © Reinhold Messner

“Adventure gives us joy. But joy, after all, is the purpose of life. We do not live to eat or earn money. We eat and earn money so that we can be happy. This is the meaning of life, and this is what it is given for. © George Mallory

“Deep diving is always solo, it is comparable to climbing eight-thousanders and all responsibility lies only with you. Complete self-sufficiency." © Pascal Bernabe

“Travel was, is and will be. And in a hundred years, and in two hundred, and in a thousand. They will change - they will become different, only the word will remain the same. You can no longer be like Miklukho-Maclay or Sedov. Now they do not open the continents or islands. You open your spirituality." © Fedor Konyukhov

“For a true traveler, there is only one goal - overcoming difficulties. And only one desire - to break through the horizon. © Nick Tendy

Why do people love wild places? For the mountains? They may not be. For forests, lakes and rivers? But it can be a desert, and still people will love it. The desert, the monotonous ocean, the untouched snowy plains of the north, all the deserted expanses, no matter how dull they may be, are the only places on earth where freedom dwells. © Rockwell Kent

“The sparkling immaculate whiteness of high-altitude snows, untouched, and perhaps unattainable; the beauty of the mountains, covered in a misty haze, because of which you can’t distinguish whether it is the earth or a cloud; distant, clear, passionless mountains - all this symbolizes the highest aspirations of the spirit. The universe appears to people in all its glory and majesty, they are seized with anxiety, the craving for adventure inherent in their ancestors wakes up in them, and they leave ... It is not at all a conscious choice that makes people change comfort and safety for adventure and adversity - most likely, there is an impulse more deeper and stronger than conscience and reason" © Rockwell Kent

"Speleology requires a lot of patience, and not impotent patience, but perseverance of prolonged effort." © Norbert Castere

“A climber can study the mountain of his dreams, looking at it through binoculars, and outline with his eyes the path of climbing among the paths and rocks. The caver, while making assumptions, is almost always mistaken because of the surprises and incredible complexities of the underworld. Alas! All his hypotheses are broken, faced with insurmountable obstacles. Collapses of arches, impenetrable cracks, dead ends, lakes, siphons every now and then ruthlessly stop the caver on his way. © Norbert Castere

“Underground is uncomfortable. Everything is harsh, sometimes ominous, always majestic and full of threats. Of course, this is why man and animals instinctively avoid and fear the underworld. Only a few adapt to this realm of death and have an interest, even passion, in its exploration. These are speleologists.” © Norbert Castere

“Abyss, you almost destroyed me and maybe you will still become my grave! But how many sublime moments of happiness you gave me among all the suffering! Here I knew the delight of searching and the intoxication of discoveries. © Michel Sifre

“There are no more vast white spots on geographical maps, and virgin lands are no longer to be found. Only three areas are still of interest for research: space, but only a select few have access to it, then the ocean, which provides unlimited space for scientists, and finally the bowels of the earth with their caves, grottoes and abysses. This is my world." © Michel Sifre

“For a speleologist, the most sticky, viscous, unsteady and all-covering clay is never just dirt, but always remains a noble substance with which he is completely saturated, which covers him from head to toe, and sometimes turns into ice, but which in the end account to such an extent inevitable and habitual that it becomes, as it were, a classical, characteristic feature of the caves. All smeared with clay, this time, let's say, just mud, doesn't the caver have the right to proudly say, like Cyrano de Bergerac: “I am morally elegant!” © Norbert Castere

“All extreme activity is a tribute to life. After all, how can you say “I love you” to your life if you have been lying on the couch all of it? © Den Osman

“I have always been different. People look at me and say "you're crazy!" . But what I do, I do for myself, for no one else. I'm not suicidal. When you sit on the sofa with your eyes fixed on the drawer, you die. I feel most alive when I am face to face with my fear.” © Den Osman

“A man goes to the mountains again and again, just as a man goes again and again to the stormy sea, because only in the wild nature can a person challenge his deep abilities, as our ancestors did in ancient times. Modern life is a kind of artificial existence. Most of the real qualities are simply turned off as unnecessary, and most of us do not even imagine what they really are, do not know the full power of our own capabilities. And it's in the wild that everyone's true nature comes out." © Abram T. Collier

“What is the point of buying a car to drive on asphalt? Where there is asphalt, there is nothing interesting, and where it is interesting, there is no asphalt.” © Brothers Strugatsky

“When a journey aims to explore a country that is difficult to access, when it acquaints us with nature, which was known only from superficial and inaccurate descriptions, then the difficulty disappears ...

A person is able to overcome many of the inconveniences of life ... he will find a black rusk soaked in spring water, tastier than the best dishes, if only he is inspired by curiosity, if the goal he wants to achieve excites a keen interest in him.

Quotes about ecology

“We float pesticides and all sorts of garbage into the ocean, like a negligent housewife sweeps garbage under the carpet.” © Thor Heirdahl

“We do not notice the air, but without it we suffocate. So it is with wildlife. Only when we lose it completely, then we realize that we have lost ... ”© Nikolai Sladkov.

“At the beginning of the 21st century, a reckless belief in progress seems like a utopia. We know that the resources of our planet are partially depleted, we know that we are disrupting the balance of both the climate and the subsoil, and now we ourselves, in comparison with those who lived before us, are also depleted in our own way - we cannot, like them, endure pain, endure hardship, work tirelessly. © Leonid Kruglov

Running Quotes

“I ran at night once or twice a week because after working as a bricklayer, I didn’t have the strength to train at all.” © Pasang Dawa Sherpa

“Daily running is not a luxury, but a way of life. And I can't refuse it just because I'm busy up to my neck with other things. If other things were reason enough for me, I would have stopped running a long time ago. The reasons that prompt me to run are one or two and counted, but the reasons to end this occupation are a wagon and a small cart. The only thing that remains for me in such a situation is to continue to cherish and cherish those who are “one or two and counted.” © Haruki Murakami

Quotes about the Urals (Ural Mountains)

“The Ural Mountains are the most noble in the entire Empire and by vocation are understood as those that the first describers called Hyperborea and Repheus. The Tatars call them the Urals” © V.N. Tatishchev, 1744

“... stretching to the very shores of its highest mountains, the peaks of which ... are completely devoid of any forest and almost even grass. Although they have different names in different places, they are generally called the Belt of Peace. And in the possession of the sovereign of Moscow, one can see only these mountains, which probably seemed to be ancient Riphean or Hyperborean. © Sigismund Herberstein 1549 (Indicator of the way to Pechora, Yugra and the Ob River)

Mountains are one of the most breathtaking places on earth. They are not similar to each other, differ in size and surface.

Mountains have always attracted special attention. Their majesty, scale and calm atmosphere that prevails around, forever remain in the memory of a person who was lucky enough to visit such amazing places at least once in his life.

The nature in the mountains is truly magical, and the air is crystal clear, which cannot leave anyone indifferent. Even sunset and sunrise look completely different here. Below is a list of phrases regarding these beautiful creations of nature.

109 quotes and aphorisms about mountains

Taking peaks is very simple - you just have to go up all the time. (Vladimir Belilovsky)
In the mountains, human life belongs to nature and insurers.
In the mountains, people often need help, so if you want to check on someone, you have a direct road to the mountains.
In the mountains, there are special bonds between people. That's why I'm drawn to them so irresistibly. (Bear Grylls)
There is neither honesty nor deceit in the mountains. They are just dangerous. (Reinhold Messner)
The strong and the weak will unite in the mountains, where they learn to help each other.
In the autumn mountains - the maple tree is so beautiful, The dense foliage of the branches - the road cannot be found! .. Where are you wandering there? - I'm looking for you in vain: I don't know the mountain paths... (Kakinomoto no asomi Hitomaro)
In life, everything returns according to the boomerang law, the mountains can prove it.
There are things in life that no one can change.
When we are young, we move mountains, and then all our lives we try to get out from under them.
Great poets, like high mountains, have numerous echoes. Their songs are repeated in all languages. (V. Hugo)
Apparently, men do not want to destroy the mountain beauties ...
From time to time, at least for cheerfulness, it is useful to look up. Down, on the contrary, it is not recommended to look, since the sight of these terrifying abysses can shake the firmness of the spirit of any optimist. (Maurice Herzog)
I look at the mountains, and the mountains look at me, And we look for a long time, without bothering each other. (Li Bo)
It is said that if these mountains were made by the Swiss, they would be much flatter. (Paul Theroux (about the Alps))
The mountain does not seem impregnable when viewed from its summit. (Vantala's words)
Mountain silence, compared to the noise of megacities, seems unreal, nevertheless, it exists.
Mountain air cleanses the body not only from various ailments, but also from lies.
Mountains are steps to heaven. Climbing them, I go to a new life ... (Natalya Turchaninova)
Mountains are an extraordinarily beautiful creation of nature. In the mountains, a person feels freedom and learns to overcome all obstacles on the path of life.
Mountains are frozen waves, water is flowing mountains. (Feng Jicai. Flight of the Soul)
Mountains are not the place where you can entrust your life to others! This is the place where you can lose it!
Mountains are good. When you are here, all the bad things remain below, and it becomes so easy on the soul. (Komatsu Tatsuji)
Mountains are ruthless, life too. (Mark Levy)
Mountains call those whose soul is their height! (V.L. Belilovsky)
The mountains have the power to call us to their lands, this is no longer a passion, this is my destiny ... (Anatoly Bukreev)
Mountains seem to get bigger the closer you get to them, but great people are not like mountains in this respect.
Mountains build character, give Spartan education and, of course, teach you to understand people. (Yuri Moiseev)
Mountains conquer the strongest, cowards are simply afraid of them.
Mountains are not stadiums where I fulfill my ambitions, they are temples where I practice my religion. (Anatoly Bukreev)
For most people, mountains are something majestic, but far from everyday life, that is, perfect harmony. (Uli Steck)
The road to the city is uphill, from the city - from the mountain.
The virtue of the sages resembles a journey to a distant land and an ascent to the summit: those who go to a distant land begin their journey with the first step; climbers to the top start from the foot of the mountain. (Confucius)
To reach the goal in the mountains is not only to climb to the top, but also to go down.
If men, for the sake of women, would turn all the mountains that they promised, our world would already be a continuous plain ...
If there are no big trees in the mountains, then the grass wants to be worshiped. (Chinese proverb)
If you value your loved ones, then you are ready to stand up for them at any cost!
If you love me, I can move mountains. And if not, then the neck.
If someone appears ready to move mountains, others will surely follow him, ready to wring his neck. (Mikhail Zhvanetsky)
If it's hard for you, then you're going uphill. If it is easy for you, then you are flying into the abyss. (Henry Ford)
There are many ways to learn something, it is not necessary to check every fact on your own.
Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.
Envy can move mountains that love cannot even dream of.
Remember: people don't die in the mountains, they just don't live there.
The snow-capped peaks of the mountains are the purest and brightest thing on earth, it is not for nothing that they are closest to heaven.
And the high mountains do not hold back the clouds.
Everyone wants to live on top of a mountain, not realizing that true happiness awaits him on the descent... If you fly up to heaven, it's scary and painful to fall, if you climb to the top of a mountain, there is a chance not to slide far... But we often take off from happiness...
No matter how high the mountain is, any of its slopes can become a path.
Just as not everyone has the courage to get a flower from the top of a mountain, so not everyone has the courage to surrender to love.
When you fall into the abyss, it's too late to think about whether there was a safer way to climb the mountain. (Terry Pratchett)
Whoever thinks he knows the mountains - he will know them, but it will be too late!
Anyone who has visited the mountains at least once will definitely want to see them again.
Someone will see the beauty of the mountains even in stone ... and someone, standing next to the mountains, will not notice the beauty!
Lies have no place in the mountains. The masks of deception are shattered by their stone character. (Komatsu Tatsuji)
Better than mountains can only be mountains that you have not yet visited. (V. Vysotsky)
Love is like a rare flower that grows on the very top of a mountain and requires great courage to receive it.
In general, people in their hearts are somewhat similar to the landscape and climate of the region in which they grew up. Those who live by the sea are like a stream, ebb and flow. They leave and return, constantly moving and discovering new shores. Their words and love stories are like water flowing through their fingers, which is in perpetual motion. People living in the mountains had to fight for the right to live there. And, as soon as the mountains submit to them, people begin to defend them as their home, and if they see from afar that someone is rising to them from the valley, they may well take him for an enemy. The people from the hills look at each other for a long time before greeting. They study, slowly get used to it, but as soon as the defense is removed or the word is given, their obligations will be as strong as the mountain on which they live. (Gilles Courtmanche)
People can meet, but mountains never.
People everywhere are piling up mountains of weapons and everywhere they want peace. This is madness. (Donald Michael Thomas)
My father used to say that walking in the mountains is like going to church. (Aldous Huxley)
We are born, we suffer, we die, and the mountains stand unshakable. (Paulo Coelho)
One climbs to the top of a mountain not to see the sky, but to see the plain. (Iason Evangelou)
A true friend is not the one who holds on to you as you climb the mountain, but the one who holds you as you descend.
I don't like it when mountains are close: they block the view all the time, they never change and do nothing, they just hang over my head. Who needs it? (David Herbert)
If you don't climb the mountains, you won't know the height of the sky; if you don’t descend into the abyss, you won’t recognize the thickness of the earth. (Chinese proverb)
Don't lose faith, faith that can move mountains. (Dominic Webb)
It is impossible to appreciate in hard currency the feeling of freedom and timelessness that the mountains give you when you stand on a high spur under a perfectly blue April sky and look around. (Jonathan Coe)
There is nothing worse when a child sees his mother's tears, then he simply ceases to believe in happiness and goodness.
No victory could justify the conscious game of human lives. (Maurice Herzog)
No photograph conveys the beauty of the mountains as climbers see them. But greatness, perhaps. (Sergey Bershov)
Never go back to what you decided to leave. No matter how much they ask you, and no matter how much you want to yourself. Having conquered one mountain, start storming another ... (Marilyn Monroe)
No one forbids you to consider yourself the king of the mountain, but please know your mountain (Watari Wataru).
There was no trace of the storm, the shore shone like a sharpened blade. The mountain and the sky shone in heat, in a dizzying distance; and a reef raised by a mirage floated along a silver pond halfway to the sky ... (William Golding)
Children should cry, and mothers should calm them down - not vice versa. That is why mothers move mountains so that their children do not see their tears.
The elevated temperature, combined with the mountain air, does evil miracles with the human mind. (Max Fry)
While the smart ones go around the mountains, others turn them off.
An attempt to climb Everest is, in fact, a deeply irrational act, a triumph of dreams over common sense. Any person who is seriously seized by this idea, by definition, is not subject to the arguments of reason. (Jon Krakauer)
After a hard day at work, you want to get lost in the mountains, and that everyone would be looking for you for a very long time ...
With enough determination, any idiot can climb this mountain,” Hall remarked. “But the trick is to get back down alive.” (Jon Krakauer)
When skiing downhill, either think faster than you are going, or go slower than you think. (Vladimir Belilovsky)
Nature created mountains as a punishment for people when she wanted to humiliate them. (Pascal Brückner)
I woke up early in the morning and I think: I will get up - I will turn mountains. She turned on the other side ... Why intrude into nature, let them stand ...
Destroy mountains, build houses; fill the sea with the remains of the mountains - and again build houses ... Some idiots still think this is a great idea. (Haruki Murakami)
Dawn in the mountains is the best event that can happen to a person. (Max Fry)
Parents are mountains that you try to climb all your life, until one day you yourself notice that you are playing their role. (Mark Levy "Between Heaven and Earth")
From the top of the mountain you can better see how insignificant everything below is. Our victories and our sorrows are no longer so important. What we have gained or lost lies down there. From the height of the mountain you see how vast the world is and how wide the horizons are. (Paulo Coelho)
From the mountain peak, even the stormy sea seems like a smooth plain. (Abe Kobo)
The most important and most difficult thing for a powerful spirit is to be able to restrain oneself: the pond stands calmly in the valley, but mountains are needed to restrain it. (Addison)
When moving mountains, try not to leave behind a desert.
The snowy mountains are beautiful. All the dirty and unpleasant things of the whole world are washed away by beautiful whiteness.
Contemplation of the great beauty of the mountains can only be complete when a friend is next to you. (Yakov Arkin)
The obstacles in front of you are not rivers, not mountains, and not other people, these obstacles are yourself. (Robert Green)
Those who do not want to be humiliated, they climb to the top of the mountain.
Only wise mountains can endure human selfishness for centuries... But even their patience has a limit. (Igor Chirtoaca)
The one who moves mountains first removes small pebbles.
Harder than climbing mountains, just don't break your neck.
Have you ever heard how an avalanche rumbles in the mountains? Just after the avalanche rumbles, and there is absolute silence. You cease to understand where you are - it is one hundred percent. Just very quiet… (Haruki Murakami).
Everyone has their own ways to achieve goals, someone will go longer, but along the right path, and someone will not reach at all and along the short one. (Donald Michael Thomas)
Alas, there are much fewer folded mountains than heaped ones. (Andrey Sokolov)
If you want to be cleansed, go to the mountains.
A man is looking for a man in the mountains. Friendship, joint struggle, the joy of the victory of the rational will of man over the blind forces of nature. Without friendship, without friends, there is no climbing. Even the contemplation of the great beauty of the mountains can only be complete when a friend is next to you (Yakov Arkin).
The person who was able to move a mountain started by dragging small pebbles from place to place.
The man sitting on the top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.
The higher up the mountain, the harder it is to walk.
To reach the top of Mount Fuji, you must first take the first step.
To find out if a mountain is high, it is not necessary to climb it. (Paulo Coelho)
After all, my friends, I write about nature, but I myself think only about people. We are the masters of nature, and for us it is the pantry of the sun with the great treasures of life. Fish - water, bird - air, beast - forest, steppe, mountains. But a man needs a homeland, and to protect nature means to protect the homeland. (Mikhail Prishvin)
I can look up at the mountain for hours. It may seem strange, but I am talking to a mountain. I try to understand whether she is waiting for me or not, will let me in or not. (Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner)
I'm not going to conquer the mountains - they are as much a part of the world as people. I conquer myself. (Wanda Rutkevich)

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