I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.
The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.
When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.
I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds.
There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams.....when, from the mountain-top, she beheld, far off, across the Sea of Marmara the plains of Greece, and made ou...
The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we con...
But in their turn, before the hour comes, let them listen also to what the Apostle says to them: ‘You were once darkness, and now youa re light in the Lord’ (Eph 5:8). Let them awaken according to the admonition of our Psalm. Already the mountain...
Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.
Water does not stick to the mountain, and vengeance does not stick to a big heart.
The goodness of the father reaches higher than a mountain; that of the mother goes deeper than the ocean.
Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.
On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...
What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.
But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.
Love always finds its way, but if you love someone just say...
When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.
I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.
