"The mountains are a place for people to enjoy
themselves in their own way, as long as that
doesn't interfere enjoyments to others or to do
damage to the mountain environment."
--Laura and Guy Waterman
"Perhaps we had become a little arrogant with our fine new technique of ice-claw and rubber slipper, our age of easy mechanical conquest. We had forgotten that the mountain still holds the master card, that it will gain success only in its own good time. Why else does mountaineering retain its deep fascination?"
--Eric Shipton, in 1938
Upon That Mountain
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
--Sir Edmund Hillary