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You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.