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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.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.