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Interesting about mountains for children. A conversation about mountains in the senior group. Running Quotes

A message on the topic “What are mountains” for children will briefly help you prepare for a geography lesson and deepen your knowledge of these large landforms.

Mountain message

You already know that the surface of the planet is not perfectly flat. It has hills, canyons, plains and mountains. These "roughnesses" are collectively referred to as terrain. And each area is characterized by its unique relief.

The mountains- This is a large elevation of the Earth's relief, which can be seen for kilometers. Even the smallest mountain will be visible from afar. By the way, over time, elevations can decrease, as the winds blowing over the mountain carry away the grains of sand that have broken off from it year after year.

The mountains are composed of:

Peaks - the top of a mountain.
Slope - that part of the mountain along which they descend from the top to the bottom.
Foot - the lower part of the mountain. This is where the slope ends and the normal terrain begins.

The shape of the mountains can be very different. Some have sharp peaks, others have flat tops or look like oval domes.

The higher the mountain, the more severe and colder the climate on its top. And what is most interesting, there can be incredible heat at the foot, and at the same time the top of the mountain is covered with a huge cap of snow and ice. Then small streams begin to gather from the top and closer to the slope they turn into a real river. Yes, rivers also erode the surface of the elevation and reduce the height of the mountain.

When did mountains appear?

They appeared a very long time ago, millions of years ago, when there were terrible earthquakes on the planet. Fountains of red-hot lava strongly beat from the ground and froze, turning into mountains. These mountains still exist today. Under them, lava is still boiling, which at any moment can break out. This process is called a volcanic eruption, and such mountains are called an active or dormant volcano. But the mountains, under which lava does not show activity, are called an extinct volcano. It is worth noting that the frozen lava is a source of minerals, therefore, in the mountains, work is underway to extract metals, ore or precious stones.

You can rarely meet seamounts. Under water, it is impossible to notice, but sometimes the top of a similar mountain sticks out of the water and resembles a rocky island.

Interesting Mountain Facts for Kids:

The highest mountain in the world stands on the border between Nepal and China. It's called Everest. The height of its peak is 8848 m.
Some mountains are formed on the place where once there was a sea or ocean. This happened in the process of shifting the folds of the seabed. These mountains include the Carpathian Mountains, the Himalayas and the Alps. In them you can find the remains of marine organisms.
The African mountain Kilimanjaro was formed due to the eruption of lava from underground.
The process of aging, reduction or growth of mountains is imperceptible to the human eye. After all, these processes take millions of years.
In ancient times, mountains were considered the home of the gods. Therefore, to sacred mountains even approaching was strictly forbidden.
The highest peaks in the world are Everest, Mont Blanc and Elbrus.

We hope that grade 4 was able to use the message about the mountains in preparation for the lesson. And you can leave a short story about the mountains through the comment form below.

Happy are the people who have seen mountains in their lives. Nature has created mountains - giants protruding to the surface. But mountains are not always visible to our eyes. Mountain ranges stretched along the bottom of the oceans. Some peaks of mountain ranges protrude from the water, forming islands. Others, terrestrial, have put huge ice caps on themselves and never take them off.

Mountains have always amazed people with their majesty, inaccessibility, some special beauty. What could be better than mountains? Only mountains. Mountains form where the earth is unsettled, scientists say, in tectonically active areas. There are lonely mountains, there are mountain groups, mountain belts.

The best architect in the world is nature itself. It is she who is working on the creation of beauty, including the mountain. Nature acts not only as an architect, architect, sculptor, but also as a decorator, illuminator. The lighting effects that are observed in the mountains leave no one indifferent. Due to the different geological composition, the mountain peaks change their color under the rays of the rising and setting sun.

Where is the sun hiding? Maybe in the mountains? Maybe it is these giants that reliably protect the sun when it is resting?

The oldest mountains on earth are several hundred million years old. Once upon a time they were subjected to severe destruction, serious passions boiled. But centuries passed, the internal movements in them ceased long ago. The Ural mountains can serve as examples of old mountains. They consist of short, elongated ridges, massifs and ridges. It seems that the mountains of the Urals were created by a sorcerer from an old fairy tale. Rather, the sorceress is the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. In any case, she, most likely, also had a hand in creating the amazing mountains of the Urals.

Young mountains, as a rule, are not older than 50 million years. Young mountains grow, mature. This is accompanied by earthquakes, volcanic activity. The Alps, the Himalayas, the Caucasus Mountains are young, they still have to grow up.

The most attractive near the mountain is the peak. That's what climbers are looking for. Standing at the top, you feel absolutely happy. The whole world is at your feet, and you yourself are much closer to the sun and stars. What are the tops of mountains? Spiked, rounded, arcuate, plateau-shaped.

"Mountain peaks sleep in the darkness of the night..."

Writers, poets, artists spared no colors to describe the beauty of the mountains. Mountains gave them strength, inspiration, beauty. Near the mountains it is impossible to remain indifferent. Mountains stir the soul, make you think about the universe.

Everything that has to do with mountains beautiful names- mountain ridge, mountain range, mountain pass. The mountains themselves are beautiful. Solid rocky walls, solemn towers, hanging cornices, mountain ranges carved with cracks - this variety of configurations pleases the eye.

The Ural mountains stretch for 2000 km from north to south, dividing our country into 2 parts: European and Asian. They start at the Arctic Ocean, cross Russia and end in Kazakhstan. This is clearly visible on the map. The highest mountain Narodnaya in the Urals. It is located in the north, its height is 1894 meters. The width of the mountains along the entire length varies from 40 to 150 km.

The ancient Greeks knew about the existence of the Ural Mountains. They believed that it was beyond the mountains legendary country Hyperborea.

Geology of the Urals

The Ural Mountains were not always so low. Their formation began about 350 million years ago. During their youth, the mountains reached a height of about 6000 meters. There was a time when there volcanoes were active, there were strong earthquakes, magma poured out, new rocks were formed, future mineral deposits were laid. Hundreds of millions of years have passed since then. Volcanoes have grown old, mountains have collapsed. But occasionally the Urals recalls its turbulent youth, and then. The last one happened in the fall of 2015.

Nature

For 2000 km the mountains pass several natural areas starting with the tundra in the north, continuing with the taiga in the middle and ending with the steppe in the south. Naturally, both nature and wildlife are different everywhere. If you can meet in the north, then marmots and ground squirrels are common in the south. When tulips are already blooming in the south, they are still seeing off the winter in the north.

Although the mountain slopes are not steep, they interfere with the winds, so the climate of the European part differs from the climate of the Asian part.

Minerals

In the bowels of the Urals is located and mined. Some of them are very rare and only found here. Among the most famous can be called:

silver;
copper ore;
ornamental stones;

Everyone knows crafts and jewelry made from beautiful green Ural stone - malachite. Products from it can be seen in the St. Petersburg Hermitage. Many folk tales about the extraction of fossil wealth were processed by the storyteller Bazhov P.P.

Population

Most of the population lives in large industrial cities. According to the national composition, these are mainly Russians. Next come Tatars, Bashkirs, Ukrainians, Kazakhs and other nationalities.

Industry

In the Ural region, the most common industries are metallurgy and mechanical engineering. Copper ore was mined here 5 thousand years ago. The modern period of development of metallurgy began under Peter I. The most famous industrial city is Chelyabinsk. If Yekaterinburg is called the capital of the Urals, then Chelyabinsk is the capital of the Southern Urals. All cities in the region have well-established rail, road and air links. A highly developed industry also has its downsides: the atmosphere in the cities of the region is very dirty.

Books have been written and feature films made about the origin and development of the industry in the Urals. During the Great Patriotic War, the Urals received enterprises from the western part of the Soviet Union. Both young and old worked here, supplying the front with ammunition. Military hospitals were established in the cities, in which wounded soldiers were treated.

The Ural Mountains still hold many unsolved mysteries that future historians, naturalists, geologists, and zoologists will be able to discover.

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Beautiful God's creation these mountains.

Before the mountains were born, and You formed the earth and the universe, and from everlasting to everlasting You are God. (Ps. 89:3)

Earth has at least at least 100 mountains, whose height from sea level exceeds 7200 meters, all of them are located in central and southern Asia. The total height of the first ten is approximately 83.78 kilometers - put on top of each other, they would not “reach” the official border of space for only 16.22 kilometers.

The word "mountains" occurs 217 times in the Bible.

Mount Sodom is a hill that stretches along the southwestern coast of the Dead Sea in Israel. It is notable for the fact that it consists almost entirely of rock salt. It is approximately 8 km long, 5 km wide, reaches 226 m above the Dead Sea and 170 m below sea level. Due to weathering, significant parts are sometimes separated from the main massif. One of these free-standing columns has long been called "Lot's Wife", reminiscent of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah described in the Bible.

The Konder mountain range is located in the Khabarovsk Territory, unique in that it has the shape of an almost perfect ring. Interestingly, this is not the crater of an extinct volcano, but the result of a magmatic intrusion. In this process, igneous rock emerges from the deep layers of the earth.

For the first time scientific measurement of the height of Mount Everest was carried out in 1856. The result was exactly 29,000 feet (equivalent to 8,839 meters). Considering that round figures are rare in nature, and wishing to avoid accusations of approximate measurements, scientists declared 29,002 feet as the height of the mountain.

Mount Ararat, which is considered a symbol of Armenia and depicted on the coat of arms of this country. However, it is located in Turkey.

Well known stone carved heads American presidents were the result of the work of sculptors in the period 1925-1941. The original monument to Washington, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt was designed by sculptor Gotzum Borglum. After his death, the work was continued by his son, but soon, due to a stop in funding, the project was completely discontinued. The monument to the presidents was declared completed, despite the original intention to portray the leaders of the nation to the waist.

Talking about interesting facts about the mountains, we should mention the Austrian lake Gruner, surrounded by mountains. In winter, the depth of the lake does not exceed two meters. There is a nice park around the lake. In spring, sometimes the snow in the mountains begins to melt, feeding the lake with new water. By May, the depth of the lake increases to 12 meters and the water covers benches, paths and even tree crowns. Thanks to the crystal clear water, the lake with a flooded park turns into a popular diving spot.

The Himalayas are the highest among the highest mountain ranges on the planet.

"Himalayas" in translation from the Hindi language means "abode (kingdom) of snows." Indeed, in terms of the scale of snow, firn and ice cover, in terms of their thickness, the Himalayas are a real kingdom of snows. The Himalayas are huge. With a total length of more than 2400 km, in some areas they reach a width of 350 km. This powerful uplift of the earth's crust, according to research scientists, is still undergoing mountain-building processes and slowly continues to rise.

Mount Everest also has other names! In Tibet it is known as "Chomolungma" or "Qomolangma". The Chinese translated her name as "Shèngmǔ Fēng", but it is rarely used. The locals in Darjeeling refer to it as "Deodungha" which means "Holy Mountain".

Mountains illuminated by the morning sun, Greece.

In some high mountain areas, such as California's Sierra Nevada, you can see watermelon snow in summer. It is pink in color and has the smell and taste of watermelon. This phenomenon is due to the presence of Chlamydomonas nivalis algae in the snow, which contain the red pigment astaxanthin. These algae also serve as food for some organisms, including ice worms. They can only live in glaciers at low temperatures, and when heated to at least 5 ° C, they decay and die.

MOUNT OF ELEON (mountain of olives, olive; Zech 14:4, Lk 19:37) - one of the Judean mountains lying to the c. from Jerusalem, from which it is separated by the Kidron Valley (John 18:1). There is no doubt that it got its name from the olive or oil-bearing trees, which have grown in abundance around it since ancient times and centuries-old specimens of which can still be seen on the western slope of the mountain in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The highest point in Africa is Mt. Kilimanjaro. Its height is 5895 meters above sea level.

Did you know that in the Guinness Book of Records, the record for the “highest mountain” on Earth does not belong to Everest (Chomolungma). In fact, most high mountain on Earth is Mauna Kea (translated from Hawaiian - "white mountain"), which is located on the island of Hawaii. Mauna Kea is a volcano that occupies almost a quarter of the island.

It rises “only” 4,205 meters above sea level, but from the base, which is hidden by the water of Mauna Kea, it rises by as much as 10,205 meters - an absolute record for the height of the mountain. Everest remains the highest mountain above sea level - 8.848 m.

The highest mountain in the world, which has not yet submitted to man, is considered Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan with an altitude of 7570 meters.

The Bible mentions the mountains of Ararat: "And the ark landed on the mountains of Ararat." It was from these mountains that mankind was born after the Flood.

The Austrian part of the Alps occupies 62% of the total land area of this European country.

Cracks in the rock can reach a depth of 50 meters. Appearing, they seem to cut the ice. In connection with this phenomenon, separate ice blocks are formed, the so-called seracs (tops of glaciers). Water, which has such a harmless appearance, can split a mountain, as soon as it penetrates into its crevice.

The higher we climb the mountains, the higher the temperature becomes lower. It drops 6.5 degrees every 1000 meters. However, in winter, we can sometimes shiver from the cold on the plateau, while at the height it will be quite warm. The temperature difference in exceptional cases can be up to 20 degrees. This phenomenon is due to clouds forming at an altitude of 1000 m, which resist the penetration of the sun's rays below and thus do not allow the valley to warm up as well as the highlands.

If you climb to the top of Everest, you will find yourself at the upper limit of the troposphere.

The city of Wichiproof in the Australian state of Victoria claims that the mountain of the same name in it is the smallest in the world. Its height is 43 meters. There is no generally accepted definition of a mountain, but in many countries objects with a height of more than 609 meters are considered mountains.

For many years now I have been collecting interesting quotes from travelers, climbers, and explorers on outdoor topics.

All this is mainly accumulated “on the table”, although sometimes it is used.

So, for example, we made a package for ours with some quotes from my collection.

But still, the bulk is “dead weight” and does not work, although many quotes, as the quintessence of the experience and views on the life of people who are great and understand firsthand in matters of travel, mountaineering, human interaction with wildlife and mountains, can be useful and interesting to many.

Some quotes can make you smile because of their naivety, for example, I liked Maurice Herzog's statement about Annapurna, and I took it to my collection. Words about the mountain were said even before the expedition to this eight-thousander began, in Russian translation they sound like this:

"As for Annapurna... this peak is easily accessible and that is why it is of only limited sporting interest."© Maurice Herzog

It is difficult to agree with this statement now, knowing that Annapurna is one of the most difficult and dangerous eight-thousanders of the planet.

Some quotes bear the imprint of the era, are the product of their time and personify the development and ideas of society, which we can look at through the prism of achievements known to us. As an example, the openly racist quote by Robert Peary

“One intelligent white man should be at the head, two whites, invited to the expedition because of their courage, determination, physical endurance and devotion to the leader, should make up the hands, and dog drivers and others locals- the body and legs of the expedition. For the peace of mind of men, it is necessary to take women on a journey; besides this, they are in many respects as useful as men, and in strength and endurance they are often almost as good as them.

But of particular value, I think, are the thoughts expressed by great travelers, climbers and investigators on issues of preparation, organization and safety. Very often, one well-aimed and strong phrase uttered by an honored person can give much more to understand the essence of the issue than voluminous articles and wordy explanations.

My favorite quote from these is by Roald Amundsen and goes like this:

"Expedition is preparation"

In just three words, the great polar explorer was able to express the main success of any business.

Quotes about mountains and mountaineering

“In the mountains, you need to depend only on yourself, on your own strength, so it’s immoral to expect someone to help you at high altitude.” © Anatoly Bukreev

"Mountains are not stadiums where I fulfill my ambitions, they are temples where I practice my religion." © Anatoly Bukreev

“Mountains have the power to call us to their lands, this is no longer a passion, this is my destiny…” © Anatoly Bukreev

“Better mountains can only be mountains,
Which I haven't been to yet."

"Everyone needs something exceptional in an era when money can have everything." © Reinhold Messner

“A person learns through defeat, not victory, as it may seem. In order to correctly assess the situation, you need to know your limit and it can only be determined in practice. I have had failures on thirteen eight-thousanders and I want to be remembered as the mountaineer with the most failures. Records didn't interest me. If I had not failed at Dhaulagiri, Makalu and Lhotse, I would have perished long ago. I love challenges, but I know how to retreat in time. ” © Reinhold Messner

"If you go to the mountains where there is no danger, you are not a real climber." © Reinhold Messner

“Mountaineering is an archaic world, devoid of rules, and that is why the price of a mistake here is very high. The anarchy reigning around forces the climber to take responsibility for his own life. Every difficult ascent is deadly, and in that sense, mountaineering is deeply selfish.” © Reinhold Messner

“Neither am I of the opinion that a climber who dies while climbing automatically becomes a hero. The death of a climber is a tragedy. No more no less. And the only thing that can be done for the dead is to help their loved ones.” © Reinhold Messner

“For a person suffering from stress, lost in an expanding civilization, the mountains have become a kind of “playing space”, in which he can be enriched with experiences and feelings that are not available to him in everyday, everyday life. Game space, game, rules of the game. Owning them is the only condition for fully enjoying an exciting lifestyle: mountaineering.” © Reinhold Messner

“Only climbers know how much willpower and courage it takes to retreat where there is at least something that would justify moving up.” © Reinhold Messner

"I am a happy man. I had a dream, and it came true, and this rarely happens to a person. Climbing Mount Everest - my people call it Chomolungma - was the innermost desire of my whole life. Seven times I set to work; I failed and started again, again and again, not with the bitterness that leads a soldier to the enemy, but with love, like a child climbing onto its mother's lap. © Tenzing Norgay

“I hate grumbling and clashing over petty things when it comes to great things. When people go to the mountains, they should forget about molehills. Whoever goes to a great cause must have a great soul.” © Tenzing Norgay

“For the opportunity to go to Everest, I would accept any job, from a dishwasher to a yeti driver.” © Tenzing Norgay

“... I trained hard, trying to restore my form. I got up early in the morning, loaded my backpack with stones, took long walks in the hills around the city - this was my habit for a number of years before large expeditions. I didn't smoke, I didn't drink, I avoided feasts, which I usually like very much. And all this time I was thinking, planning, making assumptions about how my seventh trip to Everest would go. “This time you must conquer the summit,” I told myself, “Conquer or perish ..” © Tenzing Norgay

“Future generations will ask: “What kind of people first ascended to the top of the world?” And I would like the answer to be one that I don't have to be ashamed of. Everest: the highest point of not just one country, but the whole world. It was taken by the people of East and West together. He belongs to all of us. And I also want to belong to everyone, to be a brother to all people…” © Tenzing Norgay

“The summit cannot be conquered. You stand on it for a few minutes, and then the wind sweeps away your traces. © Arlen Bloom

“You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away." © Arlene Blum

“For most people, mountains are something majestic, but far from everyday life, that is, perfect harmony.” © Ueli Steck

“I often get scared, although no one believes it. But when is a person not afraid? When he does not know something or overestimates his abilities. Fortunately, this - for me to overestimate myself - did not happen to me ... ”© Uli Steck

“First of all, love the mountains. You need to know the mountains, respect them and not think that you will shower them with hats. With the mountains you need to be on "you". Whether it is a peak of the 1b category or a route of the highest category. ” © Vladimir Shataev

“I can look up at a mountain for hours. It may seem strange, but I am talking to a mountain. I try to understand whether she is waiting for me or not, will she let me in or not. © Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

“Sometimes I think that's why I go to the mountains to understand how dear gray everyday life is to me. Returning to experience the taste of a cup of hot tea after days of thirst, sleep after many sleepless nights, meeting friends after a long solitude, silence after hours spent in a terrible storm. © Wanda Rutkevich

"I'm not going to conquer the mountains - they are as much a part of the world as people are. I conquer myself." © Wanda Rutkevich

“Mountains are the way, the end is the man himself. The ultimate meaning is not in the achievement of mountain peaks, but in the improvement of man. Climbing makes sense only if the person remains in the focus of attention.” © Walter Bonnati

“I think every climber has many reasons to climb the Matterhorn. But the main reason for everyone is the same: to climb the Matterhorn” © Gaston Rebbufa

“Rising to the top, a person elevates himself and his soul, his heart and his dream. As far as the eye can see, the country of snow and rocks spreads out before him in silence and mystery. Mountains are a special world, they form part of the planet, like a mysterious, isolated kingdom, where the symbol of life is will and love. ” © Gaston Rebbufa

"Tien Shan is not a place for climbing fun!" © Gottfried Merzbacher

“A woman for a climber is the main danger. We all know this unscrupulous truth.” © Maurice Herzog

“Having crossed the limits of our powers, knowing the boundaries of the human world, we realized the true greatness of Man” © Maurice Herzog

"No victory could ever justify a deliberate game of human lives." © Maurice Herzog

"As for Annapurna... this peak is easily accessible and that is why it is of only limited sporting interest." © Maurice Herzog 1950

“I live like in a dream. Death is near, I feel. What a beautiful death for a climber! How it harmonizes with the noble passion that rules our souls! I am grateful to the summit for being so beautiful today. Her silence recalls the grandeur of a cathedral. I don't suffer at all and I don't worry. My peace of mind is terrible." © Maurice Herzog 4 June 1950.

“From time to time, at least for cheerfulness, it is useful to look up. Down, on the contrary, it is not recommended to look, since the sight of these terrifying abysses can shake the firmness of the spirit of any optimist. © Maurice Herzog

“Mountains call those whose soul is their size!” © V.L. Belilovsky

“A good climber should not only be healthy, he should be quirky and cunning, guided by one thought - to survive ...” © Vitaly Gorelik

"My partners had to be strong, humble, fast and always optimistic." © Simone Moreau

“Randomness and risk are part of our lives. In love, work, sports, etc. we take risks every day of our lives. Climbing in the mountains, of course, is much more risky than office work, but I am not attracted to a safe life instead of a deep and fulfilling one ... I prefer to be happy every day of my 36 years than to be happy on Sundays for 80 years ... ”© Simone Moro

"It's important for me to come back safe and sound, whether I win or lose, although that term isn't particularly appropriate for those who come down from above." © Simone Moreau

“Even if I have to use it, I hate climbing with oxygen. These are dishonest and unsportsmanlike climbs, and therefore I go again to those mountains where I climbed with oxygen ... ”© Simone Moreau

“Easy, fast style and a small team - that's what I love about climbing. Why? This is a more athletic and fair game between the climber and the mountain. I respect, but do not like, the attack of the peaks by large teams ... " © Simone Moro

“An ice ax and crampons instead of claws, boots and clothes complement the woolen and fatty cover, a tent instead of a cave or a hole. And oxygen is a change in nature itself, the environment .... And one more comparison - about divers. Can you dive 200 meters without scuba gear? That's right - no. And no one can, however, everyone admits that these are ABSOLUTELY different sports. And about mountaineering, for some reason, everyone is sure that there is not much difference. Paradox?" © Denis Urubko

“In general, all the most difficult moments in the mountains, however, as in ordinary life, occur in consciousness, in overcoming oneself and in relationships between people. Frost, wind, height - all this is just an attribute, the specificity of a sport, which is only a background for knowing oneself and one's friends. Everything “extreme” is changing, forgotten, but experience and feelings remain.” © Denis Urubko

“We will all be THERE ... but I want to push the deadline for leaving “as far as possible”. And for this you need to control every step, act alphabetically competently, learn from the masters. © Denis Urubko

“I believe that mountaineering should be fun, even when it gets really tight, and even when someone has to pay for the challenge. After all, if we are willing to pay such a price, then mountaineering really brings pleasure.” © Chris Bonington

“Society is very unfair to women climbers and climbing mothers. There is no such attitude towards male climbers who risk their lives in the mountains, leaving their families at home - and the public often condemns mothers who want to climb. In my opinion, both parents are equally important for the child, and therefore I do not see the difference, whether the father or mother is mountaineers!” © Edurne Pasaban

“To turn into a situation where, it would seem, there is nothing particularly dangerous is sometimes a heroic deed. Such feats are only for you. Do them. Turn back, but get the opportunity to come back here again. Not a single mountain is worth a single fingernail! © Nikolai Totmyanin

"The mountains! Their snow-white, dazzling domes against the background of unthinkable blue and deep blue - are they not a symbol of a human dream, the call of which has been disturbing daring souls for centuries? And isn’t each of us given his own height in the chosen work? © Mikhail Turkevich

“The higher and more difficult the peak, the more friends you meet on its slopes, no matter where in the world it is located.” © Mikhail Turkevich

“We stood on the highest peak of the planet. We climbed into this sky, overcoming frost and wind, lack of oxygen and low pressure. They climbed here, risking every minute to break, to fall under a rockfall, under an avalanche. We gave our comrades the last sip of the water so coveted here, gave each other the most convenient place in the tents, warmed our neighbor in the bivouac with our warmth, joked and sang songs when the wind tried to blow the tents into the abyss with us ... For the sake of such moments, for the sake of the opportunity to test ourselves , get to know your friends better, reach the limit of the possible and look beyond this limit - for all this it is worth going to the mountains. © Mikhail Turkevich

“Fist-sized stars pulsed above us. They broke and fell to us on the ground. Fantastic Starfall! The moon hung over the very head, and it seemed very easy to reach it by hand ... ”© Mikhail Turkevich

“What a pleasure it is to contemplate the majestic mountain ranges and be above the clouds! What else in the world can be so whole, so complete, as climbing mountains. © Konrad Gesner

“Here is the concept of front-line brotherhood, there is also the concept of mountaineering brotherhood. It really is. I have a lot of teaching experience. When newcomers, after a 20-day stay in the alpine camp, begin to disperse, they literally disperse with tears. Why? People, being in harsh climatic conditions, united by a common idea, communicate, solve a common problem. Help, mutual assistance, just being together - unites people to such an extent that the phenomenon is called brotherhood. Like in a war, when people united under the most difficult conditions, doing a significant thing, winning, losing, fighting, dying, etc.

This is an integral part of mountaineering, it is good, it pleases. I am happy that I know all the people that mountaineering has given me. That we were united by an idea. Although it was in different years, in different areas, we have not met for a long time, but what was, you can’t erase from your fate.” © Sergey Bogomolov

“When you stand on the top, especially if it is the top of an eight-thousander, mountains stretch in all directions, as far as the eye can see. It seems that the whole world is ridges covered with eternal snow and nothing else. But we know that this is not so. There, further - the seas and oceans, forests and gardens, beautiful cities… That's how it is in my life. Mountaineering is a favorite thing, a profession, but besides it, there is family and friends, songs and books, theaters and exhibitions. All this is also very interesting and valuable to me. All this is my life.” © Sergey Bershov

“Always keep a clear head and be prepared to work in any environment and meet any surprise. To do this, you need to prepare comprehensively and constantly. And then you can enjoy the beauty of the mountains and enjoy the climb itself.” © Evgeny Vinogradsky

“I can't give you a new answer why people go to the mountains. Most still go just to climb to the top." © Edmund Hillary

“... The struggle of a person with a peak goes beyond mountaineering in its purely sporting sense. In my eyes, she is a symbol of the struggle of man with the forces of nature; it vividly expresses the continuity of this difficult battle and the solidarity of all who took part in it. … Shortly after our return from Everest, some of us had to talk to a group of students. One of them turned to me with a question: “What is the point of climbing Everest? Were you financially interested or is it just some kind of crazy?” © John Hunt

“Long attempts to conquer a difficult peak can be compared to a relay race, where each team member, having overcome his section of the path, passes the wand to the next one until the entire distance has been covered.” © John Hunt

“As long as the climber adjusts to the mountain, that is mountaineering. When he starts to adapt the mountain for his purposes, it's building work." © John Hunt

"I love peaks as a separate person, as equivalent parts of a big whole." © Herbert Tichy

"The risk must always be justified by something." © Vitaly Abalakov

“Mountaineering is a complex and dangerous multifaceted type of human activity. A rare combination of sophisticated mental and physical work in a very difficult environment. © Vitaly Abalakov

“What gives mountaineering to an individual? a prominent Western climber asked half a century ago and answered this way: “He brings us back to nature, to that element with which most of us have lost direct contact. The desire to rise, boundless, spontaneous - doesn’t it take us away, as if on magic wings, somewhere far from the usual level, and with it from ordinary thoughts? © Evgeny Abalakov

“Now sparkling, joyful, calling, then formidable and angry, calling for single combat, then mysterious, with an elusive veil hiding itself and only for a moment opening with wonderful fantastic visions of a special world, a harsh, beautiful, eternally calling element of mountain peaks.” © Evgeny Abalakov

“You can be the world's greatest climber and be a selfish asshole who doesn't care about your family and friends at the same time. Or you can be the one who tries to learn something from the rivers and mountains, who gets better from there. I'm trying to be that person." © Doug Ammons.

“Climbing for me is one of the forms of knowledge that inspires me, helps me oppose my inner world to nature. It is a means to experience a state of consciousness where there is no distraction or expectation. This is an intuitive state of being, something that gives me the opportunity to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.” © Lynn Hill

“The colors of mountain sunsets are bright and unique - sometimes scarlet, purple, crimson and crimson, sometimes full of regal brilliance, when it seems that half the sky is filled with molten gold.” © Konstantin Rototaev

“Mountaineering begins where the paths end, and does not end even at the top, because it’s not enough to go up, you also have to go down. On the descent of a climber, severe trials are often guarded. © Nikolai Tikhonov

The path to the heights is open to anyone

Height who will love fearlessly

Where the ice ax rings and where the heart rings

There is born the friendship of the brave!

“…it matters how you climb, not where you climb. You know, many years ago, we in Yosemite realized that there was nothing upstairs. You climb out, and there are stones and a path down. Therefore, even then it became clear that it was important not where you climbed, but how you did it! And it is this process of “how?” compromises the rampant use of bolts. Or take, for example, Everest. The most terrifying example of the "dead end" of mountaineering development! Dozens of almost permanently installed aluminum staircases, kilometers of railings... Having climbed up, you climbed “something”, but not the Top of the World - Everest.” © Yvon Shoinard

“What matters is what you do here and now. It is important to climb the route having fun and it is not at all important to leave a mark for centuries. Who needs it, this footprint of yours on this rocky wall that mankind does not need? © Yvon Shoinard

“What space! What a charming beauty in all these snow giants, towering up to the sky! What a variety of colors and tones in these fabulous cliffs of an endless chain of mountains, lost somewhere far, far away. How deeply all this touches the soul and heart of man! He is seized by such a feeling of delight, which is beyond human strength to describe. © Sergey Kirov

“I only fear bad weather in the mountains. This is the only thing in the mountains that does not depend on us.” © Junko Tabei

“You have to go to the mountain. It is difficult, but you have to go forward, the mountain itself will not come to the base camp.” © Vladislav Terzyul

“There, at a height, closer to God, a person becomes purer and nobler” © Vladislav Terzyul

“Mountains, mountains! What magnetism is hidden in you! What a symbol of tranquility lies in each sparkling peak! The most daring legends are born near the mountains. The most human words come from the snowy heights. Some people are afraid of the mountains and claim that the mountains choke them. Aren't these people afraid of big things? © Nicholas Roerich

"Mountains are the only place where I can rest." © Igor Tamm

“Untouched nature brings incomparable spiritual peace. Added to this is the deep satisfaction of overcoming obstacles. In the mountains, friendship with comrades, sealed by dangers, is born, remaining for life. © Igor Tamm

"High-altitude mountaineering is the closest sport to astronautics" © Terman Titov

Everest is the highest pole of the earth. Getting to the top on foot, relying on my own feet and on the power of the mind, turned out to be only a little easier than landing a man on the moon. Only 16 years separated these two events. ©

F.M. Sveshnikov

“Mountaineering is a sport of difficult decisions. In the mountains you can't hide behind an empty word, here only deeds are valued. A person in mountaineering is worth exactly as much as he is worth in reality. © F.M. Sveshnikov

“At any age, you have to keep dreaming. You must try to make dreams come true. I know well that if you have a strong heart and take one small step after another, you will reach the top of the world.” © Iyuchiro Miuro

“Believe in yourself in the face of death. Fear won't do anything to you. Whether you are alive or dead, your heart beats faster than 100 beats per minute. Fears go away when you just start climbing.” © Iyuchiro Miuro

“I realized very early that someone who walks with a strong partner may never know the very essence of mountaineering, and in any case will receive only part of the emotions from climbing ... After all, he is only a follower ... if he is in the lead, he takes responsibility for the success of the enterprise, then something more opens up to him ... I see no reason why women could not lead in serious ascents ... but I also realize that if a woman takes on this role, then the participation of men in the project cannot to be out of the question." © Miriam O'Brien Underhill

"He who does not get lost in the snowy mountains will not be afraid in battle." This is the slogan of the Soviet climber. Cowardice is a lack of confidence in oneself, in one's knowledge. Such qualities as caution, attentiveness, accuracy, sometimes slowness due to careful control of the path, protection and self-protection should not be confused with cowardice.
A brave person is one who, having weighed all the difficulties and prepared accordingly to overcome them, resolutely, energetically fights for the implementation of the task, who does not get lost in difficult times; who calmly, patiently seeks the path to victory, he will always find it .. ”© Physical training of climbers I. Yukhin, 1939.

“The only way to compensate for their inferiority, their lack of self-confidence was in mountaineering. Surrendering to it completely was the only salvation for me. Now the natural course of events in my life has become the conquest of one peak after another - first in Japan, and then abroad. © Naomi Uemura

“Mountaineering is more of a mental sport than a physical one. If you really, really want to do something, then what is a little more pain for you? Just go with it." © Mark Inglis

“The call of the high mountains… Maybe this is part of man’s eternal quest, some excess of that vital energy that drives mankind from century to century in its attempt to always reach an ever higher peak of human aspirations? .. Even if the conquest of Everest becomes an ordinary event, always there are higher Everests; even if in the distant future our Earth becomes a place without secrets, there will always be other peaks to climb and other worlds to explore. For those who are ready to venture fearlessly into uncharted seas and into the unconquered peaks of human aspirations, there will never be a lack of adventure for mind and body.” © Jawaharlalu Nehru

“Let them not, however, think that climbing highest peaks- just hard, tedious work. There are no words to describe the impression made by these giants, or to convey the feeling of the climber, who found himself on the verge of a dead kingdom, where violent wind, scorching sun and merciless frost, as well as rarefied air make all life impossible. © Evans Charles, Inviolable Kanchenjunga, M., Physical Culture and Sport, 1961

“What made both man and animal aspire to these barren heights? Dr. James Chapin, who devoted many years to studying the birds of the Congo, once found the skeleton of a Gamlin marmoset on the top of Karisimbi, many miles from its native forests. And recently I read an interesting article about a pack of hyena dogs that was seen in the glaciers of Kilimanjaro, at an altitude of almost twenty thousand feet. Perhaps man is not the only creature in this world who climbs a mountain just because she is standing in front of him. © George Schaller Year under the sign of the gorilla. M., Thought, 1968.

“... As soon as he crossed the ridge to Georgia, he abandoned the cart and began to ride: he climbed the snowy mountain (Krestovaya) to the very top, which is not at all easy; from there you can see half of Georgia as if on a silver platter, and, really, I do not undertake to explain or describe this amazing feeling; for me mountain air is a balm; to hell with the blues, the heart is beating, the chest is breathing high - nothing is needed at this moment; I would sit and watch like that for the rest of my life.” © Mikhail Lermontov

“I am far from self-praise, far from ambition and rivalry, I just want to say that mountaineering should be considered as a wonderful game in which every accident is either a mistake or negligence, and death is a real tragedy. In order to avoid a demonstration of heroism, I, like most of us, believe that it is better to wait than to rush and take risks, it is better to slow down than to suffocate, it is better to sing than to shout ... ”© Jean Franco“ Makalu ”

“We have entered into a grandiose and wonderful battle with nature, we are investing all our physical, mental and moral strength in achieving victory. In a few weeks, the battle, which took place in an atmosphere of passionate intensity and brotherly friendship, raised us above human mediocrity. © Jean Franco "Battle for Jeanne"

“When you look from the height of Pobeda Peak, it seems that the rest of the peaks squatted down.” © Lyudmila Agranovskaya

“Mountains are made in order to show a person how a dream can look like ..” © Yuri Vizbor

“Life is a continuous ascent along an untrodden path that winds along the mountain slopes ... I stand on a white mountain and look into the blue distance of the roads traveled. Ahead rises a peak under a blue hat of snow. If I manage to climb it - I will see new distances ... ”© A. Keshokov story View from the white mountain

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet..." - William Blake

“Something inside me is killing interest in playing at low limits. For me there is either a high rate or nothing. And it's eating me up." © Jerzy Kukuczka

"Mountains are a place where you can exchange life for endless bliss." © Milarepa Shepa Dorje

“Mountaineering in my life was not just a sport that gave me a good mood. This is a worldview that affirms simple truths, glorifying good things: courage and camaraderie, the desire to learn and the desire to help, devotion to the goal, the meaning and joy of daring, sensitivity and amazing courage. © Boris Delaunay

“To love is not to look at each other, but to look together in the same direction. Comrades are only those who, holding on to one rope, climb the mountain peak with common efforts and in this find their closeness. © Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Winter high-altitude climbing is a sophisticated way of suffering in the mountains." © Wojtek Kurtyka

“Winter expeditions are the only mountaineering without the struggle of the “stars”, rivalry, competition with each other. The mountain is so difficult in winter that everyone rallies for a common goal in an atmosphere of partnership, mutual assistance and goodwill. Such an atmosphere is now preserved only in speleology and in winter Himalayan ascents. This is no longer possible to find in the summer in the Alpine ascents. © Wojtek Kurtyka

“The essence of winter Himalayan ascents is overcoming one's own pain caused by cold, discomfort and other reasons. You can trust me, it is. I believe that winter Himalayan ascents have little to do with the essence of real mountaineering, which begins where ordinary tourism ends, and a person is forced to overcome technical difficulties with the help of hands. In winter, you can't take off your mittens, so there is no question of difficult technical ascents. The combination of very low temperatures and 8000 m makes real mountaineering impossible.” © Wojtek Kurtyka

“The maxim that about the deceased is either only good, or nothing, plays an extremely negative role in understanding the catastrophe. The unadorned truth of what happened is the last gift of the departed to the living. We often ignore it (the gift), supposedly for moral reasons. And this is really immoral.” © Igor Komarov

"Freeride is a martial art where life is at stake." © Igor Komarov

“To go first is a special job. Here you are alone with the wall. Comrades mentally with you, but no one is around. Only the rope pulls down a lot, connecting you with the world of people, and the rock hangs over your head. Often the next section of the route seems impassable, and there is no longer confidence in success, and anxiety hangs over the wall like a cloud. Then, like a convenient shelf, you grab onto the thought: you made up your mind, accepted the challenge - so drive away doubts, turn off everything extraneous from your mind, focus on the goal, you have to go through ”© Vitaliy Bodnik

“Victory in mountaineering generously gives a person the joy of victory over himself. And she also makes a comrade in a bundle your brother, and this male brotherhood is stronger than granite ”© Vitaliy Bodnik

“Many are afraid of mountains, but this is from their ignorance. The unknown is always scary. The mountains, of course, are formidable, but not insidious and not malicious. Hurry up to the mountains! You are waiting for the discovery of pristine nature. You will discover yourself.” © Vasily Kovtun

“The Caucasian mountains are much more beautiful, their peaks are pointed; the abysses separating the peaks from each other give the impression of immeasurable depth. © Douglas Freshfield

“The strongest fear arises in those moments when you realize that you are still alive and well, but you are already finished ... that is, the brain has time to fully realize that you have practically no chance of surviving.” © Valery Rozov

“I have no respect for people who walk tightrope using belay. I don't really like the fact that if you fall, you die, but that's part of what's called tightrope walking." © Philippe Petit

“The snow is hiding and waiting. Waiting for our oversight. One has only to cut the layer, maybe even shout loudly - and the slope will disappear from under the feet. We know how it happens: first a soft crack, then a rustle, and then a roar. Just a second. Before you have time to look back, you will be buried under many meters of cold and heavy snow, like cast iron. © A.Kuznetsov “Bottom of Svaneti”

“... From edge to edge, along the entire horizon, in glaciers and snows, stands the great Tien Shan system. All of it burns with golden-orange and red tones of sunset, and Khan-Tengri floats from above, like a giant faceted ruby set in a dark turquoise sky. © Semenov-Tyan-Shansky.

"The forces of the untamed nature - wind, clouds, storm and cold - find their strongest expression on the tops of the mountains, endowing the heights with the aura of wilderness in its most extreme and undisturbed state." © Bernbaum Edwin

“... After all, as long as there are mountains, there will be traces on their slopes, there will be notes on the peaks ... This is the law of a person’s struggle with mountains. And in everyone's life, sooner or later, there comes a moment when he must meet nature face to face and feel that man, even in a small number, is stronger than her. Humanity has existed for twenty thousand generations, of which nineteen thousand eight hundred generations - ninety-nine percent - have struggled with nature without the help of electricity, machines and science. In the current generations, there is still a decent amount of disturbing blood of ancestors. The word "feat" means an action that not everyone is given to perform. But those who go to the mountains, as a rule, do not think about the feat, dreaming only of enjoying the incomparable feeling of the pioneers, they want to see entire countries lying at their feet under the clouds, so that the shadow from the hand extends hundreds of kilometers and the purple sky is towards them. a little closer than to other people ... And let the voices disappear from the whirlwind for a while and leave people alone with the mountains. For mountains and people are a continuous battle. © Evgeny Iordanishvili

“I only know three real sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing and car racing. The rest of the sports are games." © Ernest Hemingway

“In the struggle with the summit, in striving for the immensity, a person wins, acquires and affirms, first of all, himself. In the extreme tension of the struggle, on the verge of death, the Universe disappears, ends next to us. Space, time, fear, suffering no longer exist. And then everything can be available. Like on the crest of a wave, when, during a violent storm, a strange, great calmness suddenly reigns in us. This is not spiritual emptiness, on the contrary, it is the warmth of the soul, its impulse and aspiration. And then we realize with certainty that there is something indestructible in us, a force that nothing can resist.” © Lucien Devi

“A bad road is one from which the traveler will surely fall, and his body cannot be found. The good road is the one from which the traveler falls, but his corpse can be found and buried. And the beautiful road is the one from which the traveler may not fall ”© folk wisdom

Quotes about travel, expeditions and wildlife

“Willpower is the first and most important quality of a skilled researcher. Only by knowing how to control his will, he can hope to overcome the difficulties that nature raises in his path. © Amundsen Roald

“What is still unknown to us on our planet puts some kind of oppression on the consciousness of most people. This unknown is something that man has not yet conquered, some permanent proof of our impotence, some unpleasant challenge to dominance over nature. © Amundsen Roald

"Forethought and caution are equally important: foresight - in order to notice difficulties in time, and caution - in order to prepare in the most thorough way for their meeting." © Amundsen Roald

“It’s bad to linger at one fire for a long time: your eyes get tired of looking at the same thing, your ears go deaf. Need to go. Turbidity does not hold in fast water ... "© Ulukitkan

“When people ask me why I go on this or that trip, I usually answer: I don’t know, b it really is. After all, if I knew what awaits me, I would not set off on the road. © Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“Dark cold night, wrapped in a blanket, I sit motionless on the shore and listen to the fountains of smooth whales. They are very close. Although it is difficult to distinguish their massive forms in the dark, I know that they swim close to the coast, sometimes touching the bottom with their belly in shallow water. But they jump out about two hundred meters from me. Their huge bodies with a terrible noise fall into the water. In the intervals between bursts, deep breaths of whales are heard: for me, this powerful choral concert is the most beautiful music in the ocean. This is how my first night in Patagonia goes…” © Philippe Cousteau

“Polar night, you look like a woman, a delightful, beautiful woman with the noble features of an antique statue, but also with her marble coldness. On your high forehead, clear as pure ether, there is not a trace of sympathy for the petty sorrows of the human race, on your pale beautiful cheeks - not a trace of feeling ... I am exhausted by your cold beauty, I crave life, warmth, light! Let me come back either a winner or a beggar - It's all the same to me! But let me come back and start living again.” © Fridtjof Nansen

“We should agree with our experience that you cannot get real wealth with the help of an army, you cannot win it with the help of a sling or a bomb that can fly around the world fifteen times and hit us in the back of the head, and not just our enemies. The real treasures are on enemy soil and not in a bank. You can’t put them on the scales and you won’t see them with a simple eye, because you have to look for them inside your own head. What is stored in the soul cannot be taken away. © Thor Heirdahl

“Really, why make a fuss about something that has been done? I never only reminisce about the past. There is too much to do in the future!” © Edmund Hillary

“Many of us in our youth try to prove to ourselves that we are capable of overcoming unusual situations. For me, such a situation was an autonomous life in the forest. Soon I realized that I can kill an animal or a bird, use mushrooms, berries, but why? Everything turned out to be a more difficult task: you need to shoot what you see, turn what you see into visible images. So I shoot nature all my life. ” © Vadim Gippenreiter

“Romance is essential in human life. It is she who gives a person divine powers to travel beyond the ordinary. © Fridtjof Nansen

“Winter is not an enemy, it is a great helper, throwing bridges over the seas, covering the bare stones of the mountains and smoothing out the clefts. And as soon as the sleigh ride makes the trip possible, you are irresistibly drawn into the distance, new plans are born, and you are just waiting impatiently for the frost to get stronger. © Knud Rasmussen

“... if water is more important than food, then hope for a person is more important and more necessary than water.” © Alain Bombard

“Victims of legendary shipwrecks who died prematurely, I know: it was not the sea that killed you, it was not hunger that killed you, it was not thirst that killed you! Swinging on the waves to the plaintive cries of seagulls, you died of fear. © Alain Bombard

“One intelligent white man should be at the head, two whites, invited to the expedition because of their courage, determination, physical endurance and devotion to the leader, should be the arms, and dog drivers and other local residents should be the body and legs of the expedition. For the peace of mind of men, it is necessary to take women on a journey; besides this, they are in many respects as useful as men, and in strength and endurance they are often almost as good as them ”© Robert Peary

“The romance of distant wanderings, contemplation of the surrounding nature, immersion in it are combined in me with the desire for sports records” © Marina Galkina

“Traveling alone without means of communication is an exciting thing. It is without means of communication, I emphasize. There is an undoubted share of risk in this and the sharpness of sensations, the fullness of life are guaranteed. Everything depends on you, on your strengths, your skills, dexterity. You are given the right to choose any path, you have the last word. You feel real freedom. Only in such a journey do you completely break away from civilization, merge more closely with nature, understand your insignificance and defenselessness ”© Marina Galkina

“Frankly speaking, a traveler needs to be born, and one should set off into the distance only in the years of full strength” © Petr Kozlov

“The most favorite place both in Russia and in the world is Kamchatka. There is a unique nature. In general, I am more interested in traveling around the country than abroad .... a person cannot love without knowing. All our lives we love the place where we grew up, because we absorbed it from childhood, grew up with these trees and this grass. Russia is very little known - I myself discover it anew for myself every time. © Yuri Senkevich

“Rivers are a gift to us. Water is a metaphor for the flow of time, and everyone has their place in the flow. © Doug Ammons.

“My worst enemy on the way to my goal is fear. I am a very cowardly person and, like all cowardly people, I strive to conquer my fear. Victory over fear makes me happy….. I want to be stronger than my own fear, for this I look for danger again and again.” © Reinhold Messner

“I am Sisyphus, that all my life I can roll up my stone, that is, myself, without reaching the peak, since there can be no peak in knowing oneself.” © Reinhold Messner

“I don’t remember when I freed myself from religious feelings, I know only one thing: since then it has become more difficult for me to convince myself that I am not alone in the world, not abandoned.” © Reinhold Messner

“Adventure gives us joy. But joy, after all, is the purpose of life. We do not live to eat or earn money. We eat and earn money so that we can be happy. This is the meaning of life, and this is what it is given for. © George Mallory

“Deep diving is always solo, it is comparable to climbing eight-thousanders and all responsibility lies only with you. Complete self-sufficiency." © Pascal Bernabe

“Travel was, is and will be. And in a hundred years, and in two hundred, and in a thousand. They will change - they will become different, only the word will remain the same. You can no longer be like Miklukho-Maclay or Sedov. Now they do not open the continents or islands. You open your spirituality." © Fedor Konyukhov

“For a true traveler, there is only one goal - overcoming difficulties. And only one desire - to break through the horizon. © Nick Tendy

Why do people love wild places? For the mountains? They may not be. For forests, lakes and rivers? But it can be a desert, and still people will love it. The desert, the monotonous ocean, the untouched snowy plains of the north, all the deserted expanses, no matter how dull they may be, are the only places on earth where freedom dwells. © Rockwell Kent

“The sparkling immaculate whiteness of high-altitude snows, untouched, and perhaps unattainable; the beauty of the mountains, covered in a misty haze, because of which you can’t distinguish whether it is the earth or a cloud; distant, clear, passionless mountains - all this symbolizes the highest aspirations of the spirit. The universe appears to people in all its glory and majesty, they are seized with anxiety, the craving for adventure inherent in their ancestors wakes up in them, and they leave ... It is not at all a conscious choice that makes people change comfort and safety for adventure and adversity - most likely, there is an impulse more deeper and stronger than conscience and reason" © Rockwell Kent

"Speleology requires a lot of patience, and not impotent patience, but perseverance of prolonged effort." © Norbert Castere

“A climber can study the mountain of his dreams, looking at it through binoculars, and outline with his eyes the path of climbing among the paths and rocks. The caver, while making assumptions, is almost always mistaken because of the surprises and incredible complexities of the underworld. Alas! All his hypotheses are broken, faced with insurmountable obstacles. Collapses of arches, impenetrable cracks, dead ends, lakes, siphons every now and then ruthlessly stop the caver on his way. © Norbert Castere

“Underground is uncomfortable. Everything is harsh, sometimes ominous, always majestic and full of threats. Of course, this is why man and animals instinctively avoid and fear the underworld. Only a few adapt to this realm of death and have an interest, even passion, in its exploration. These are speleologists.” © Norbert Castere

“Abyss, you almost destroyed me and maybe you will still become my grave! But how many sublime moments of happiness you gave me among all the suffering! Here I knew the delight of searching and the intoxication of discoveries. © Michel Sifre

“There are no more vast white spots on geographical maps, and virgin lands are no longer to be found. Only three areas are still of interest for research: space, but only a select few have access to it, then the ocean, which provides unlimited space for scientists, and finally the bowels of the earth with their caves, grottoes and abysses. This is my world." © Michel Sifre

“For a speleologist, the most sticky, viscous, unsteady and all-covering clay is never just dirt, but always remains a noble substance with which he is completely saturated, which covers him from head to toe, and sometimes turns into ice, but which in the end account to such an extent inevitable and habitual that it becomes, as it were, a classical, characteristic feature of the caves. All smeared with clay, this time, let's say, just mud, doesn't the caver have the right to proudly say, like Cyrano de Bergerac: “I am morally elegant!” © Norbert Castere

“All extreme activity is a tribute to life. After all, how can you say “I love you” to your life if you have been lying on the couch all of it? © Den Osman

“I have always been different. People look at me and say "you're crazy!" . But what I do, I do for myself, for no one else. I'm not suicidal. When you sit on the sofa with your eyes fixed on the drawer, you die. I feel most alive when I am face to face with my fear.” © Den Osman

“A man goes to the mountains again and again, just as a man goes again and again to the stormy sea, because only in the wild nature can a person challenge his deep abilities, as our ancestors did in ancient times. Modern life is a kind of artificial existence. Most of the real qualities are simply turned off as unnecessary, and most of us do not even imagine what they really are, do not know the full power of our own capabilities. And it is in wild nature everyone's true nature comes out." © Abram T. Collier

“What is the point of buying a car to drive on asphalt? Where there is asphalt, there is nothing interesting, and where it is interesting, there is no asphalt.” © Brothers Strugatsky

“When a journey aims to explore a country that is difficult to access, when it acquaints us with nature, which was known only from superficial and inaccurate descriptions, then the difficulty disappears ...

A person is able to overcome many of the inconveniences of life ... he will find a black rusk soaked in spring water, tastier than the best dishes, if only he is inspired by curiosity, if the goal he wants to achieve excites a keen interest in him.

Quotes about ecology

“We float pesticides and all sorts of garbage into the ocean, like a negligent housewife sweeps garbage under the carpet.” © Thor Heirdahl

“We do not notice the air, but without it we suffocate. So it is with wildlife. Only when we lose it completely, then we realize that we have lost ... ”© Nikolai Sladkov.

“At the beginning of the 21st century, a reckless belief in progress seems like a utopia. We know that the resources of our planet are partially depleted, we know that we are upsetting the balance of both the climate and the subsoil, and now we ourselves, in comparison with those who lived before us, are also depleted in our own way - we cannot, like them, endure pain, endure hardship, work tirelessly. © Leonid Kruglov

Running Quotes

“I ran at night once or twice a week because after working as a bricklayer, I didn’t have the strength to train at all.” © Pasang Dawa Sherpa

“Daily running is not a luxury, but a way of life. And I can't refuse it just because I'm busy up to my neck with other things. If other things were reason enough for me, I would have stopped running a long time ago. The reasons that prompt me to run are one or two and counted, but the reasons to end this occupation are a wagon and a small cart. The only thing that remains for me in such a situation is to continue to cherish and cherish those who are “one or two and counted.” © Haruki Murakami

Quotes about the Urals (Ural Mountains)

“The Ural Mountains are the most noble in the entire Empire and, by vocation, are understood as those that the first describers called Hyperborea and Repheus. The Tatars call them the Urals” © V.N. Tatishchev, 1744

“... stretching to the very shores of its highest mountains, the peaks of which ... are completely devoid of any forest and almost even grass. Although they have different names in different places, they are generally called the Belt of Peace. And in the possession of the sovereign of Moscow, one can see only these mountains, which probably seemed to be ancient Riphean or Hyperborean. © Sigismund Herberstein 1549 (Indicator of the way to Pechora, Yugra and the Ob River)

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