"Because it's there...." - Anonymous

"Something complex & undefinable, the attraction of uncertainty" - Fred Becky

"What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy" - George Leigh Mallory

"Alphinism is the art of suffering" - Voytek Kurtyka

"A priviledge communion with the high places of the earth" - Hudson Stuck

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves" - Jhon Muir

"Let the forest live, let the eagles fly ! Save mother earth today for our children tomorow" - Davao Credo

"A real nature lover enjoys the beauty of mother nature and protects it for other generations to enjoy" - Anonymous

"An invitation to conquer yourself while enjoying the adventure of a lifetime" - Long Henson

"Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time" - Philippine mountaineers' slogan

"A great way to be one with all that lives" - Anonymous

"You never conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself" - Anonymous

"Once experienced, it becomes an obsession" - Anonymous

"When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I go to my solitary woodland walks as the homesick return to their homes" - Henry David Thoreau

"Be one with nature, be one with thou soul" - m3c2@cnl.net

"Seeking one's peak is like seeking one's existence"...... Miguel C. Lopez

"I climb because of absolute simplicity. There is focus. Your mind is clear. Light becomes brighter and sound becomes stronger. You experience a powerful purpose of life"..... Heinrich Harrer (from Brad Pitt in '7 years in Tibet')

"My darling, this is a thrilling business altogether. I can tell you it possesses me, and what a prospect it is... And the beauty of it all." - George Leigh Mallory (1924 Everest Attempt)

"In this lonely environment, which is also hostile to life, the imagination conjures up all manner of strange desires or horrifying apparitions" - Peter Habeler (First to climb Everest without oxygen, 1987)

"The risk of death is enticing, because it reminds you that you are alive...has come to symbolize for many people the ultimate in personal ambition and achievement" - David Breashears

"Right or wrong, people congratulate you for climbing it, which creates a superficial separation between you and the others. But in a deeper sense, did the mountain made me a better person ?" - Neal Beidleman

"Yet climbers keep coming, not because it is the point of exploration, but because it is the path, the ultimate route for an inner journey that leads to self discovery" - Beidleman

"A great methaphor for human striving" - Thomas Hornbein

"The fact that either you or one of your companions may have the possibility of dying...not only doesnt stop you from doing it, but it's almost one of the things that keeps you going" - Edmund Hillary

"Unlike any other sport, mountaineering demands that it's players die" - Bruce Borcott

"Climbers would make the same risk not the same mistakes, and some of them would die as climbers have been doing for more than 7 decades. But smelling the earth & the fragrant trees, I realize in the deepest sense my own good fortune. I scaled Everest once more. I wondered if I would be wise enough to stay away."

"In the '90s, wealthy people want to buy backpacks and take off on exotic hiking trips. It's just not 'in' to have paintings" - Armand Bartos, a private New York art dealer on the depressed art market

"God gave us mountains to climb and strength to climb them" - Anonymous

"The most beautiful thing in the whole world is to view the handmade of God a top of the highest peak" - Bong

"I want to know what is out there for my children, for me, for all of us. I want to bring what is out there in here, inside my porous and temporary skin, into the tumbling river of my thoughts, into my soul. By speaking of 'soul', a word worn slick for rolling over too many tongues, I wish to name whatever it is within me that rises up in response to the power and beauty I meet in the world." - Scott Sanders (sent by Marj Mir)

"Every step of the way, every scenery to behold, every sound to be heard, every air to breathe is a gift from God. Let us preserve these gift for the mountaineers of tomorrow" - Jerry Jose

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