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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I climb mountains.
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.
When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.
There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.
The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
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