It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Climbing is a journey without culmination.
I climb mountains.
You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.
Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.