mountaineering

“His lifelong interest in mountaineering culminated in a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, the world’s second highest mountain, which changed his life.”

Greg Mortenson biography

“I found in mountaineering a way of living in which it was easy to get into situations that invariably were going to be difficult to get out of and, once in those situations, once involved, if you failed, the result was either physical injury or death.”

To Reach the Highest Mountains

“It's interesting that one of the first things you learn in mountaineering, if you're going to stay with the sport, is how to adapt to changing conditions.”

To Reach the Highest Mountains

“I found in mountaineering an activity, a way of life, a lifestyle that was appropriate for my type of personality, because I tend to be lazy, but not incompetent. l found in mountaineering a hard taskmaster.”

To Reach the Highest Mountains

“I learned more in mountaineering in these 20 years, I think, than I've ever learned in the years before and I expect to climb until I can't move any more.”

To Reach the Highest Mountains

“There is an understandable squeamishness among law-makers about what we used to call "mountaineering", climbing anything that rose out of the ground.”

The Guardian: Six Nations 2011: England still need to get rid of their stutter | Eddie Butler

“This is what they'd call mountaineering eroticism.”

deseretnews.com - Top Stories

“I mulled over some other popular sub-genres, such as mountaineering (too high!) or desert-crossing (too hot!) before deciding that the books which most struck my fancy were oceangoing adventures.”

Archive 2005-01-01

“None of their guards carried ropes, grappling hooks, or any other kind of mountaineering apparatus.”

The Deluge Drivers