"The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the s..."
- Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
"The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart."
- Jane Wilson-Howarth
"… everything was fresh, green and particularly beautiful. Afternoon light, filtering between remnants of monsoon clouds, picked out gullies and spot-lit patches of forest and scrub on the convoluted r..."
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."
- Heinrich Harrer
"Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains."
- Jeffrey Rasley
"He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life."