My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Trudy Chacon: [to the others on the airship while flying by the Hallelujah Mountains] You should see your faces!
Jack Twist: Ya know it could be like this, just like this always.
Jack Twist: I got a boy. Eight months old. Smiles a lot.
Michel Poiccard: If you don't like the sea... or the mountains... or the big city... then get stuffed!
Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it. Getting to the top is the manna of life. AL/fd
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
The Bible says that the earth is . It cannot be . So now is your chance to prove your point. Run outside and the earth. Perhaps you and your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together. Maybe after that little experiment yo...
On THE AMBER SPYGLASS: "If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished in the horrible drunk accident where it went headlong over the cliff of the author's preachy message, tumbled d...
We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we loved each other. I am not closer to anyone else in this life than I am to Muhammad Ali. Why? We were forged by that first fight in Zaire, and our li...
My name is Spar. I am neither called Rocky nor made of rock. I am a Guardian, one of those warriors who were summoned to battle against the Seven demons of the Darkness and to prevent their possible return to this human plane of existence. I consider...
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death an...
Jules: You remember Antoine Roccamora, half black, half Samoan, used to call him Tony Rocky Horror? Vincent: Yeah, maybe. Fat, right? Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call the brother fat, I mean he got a weight problem. What's the nigger gonna do? ...
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found mys...
Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win.
For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
