Edward Whymper

“Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime.”

“Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”

“There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell.”

“A single slip may be fraught with the most fatal consequences.”

“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in idleness when I have a curiosity to use.”

“What we did that day was not mountaineering, it was a race.”

“The mountains had been my friends. They had whispered their secrets to me.”

“The climbing of precipices is a sport, a game, which has its own rules.”