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When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

I climb mountains.