Juli Roffman

“You'll never feel the joy of movement if you're struggling.”
― Jon Krakauer, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

“Think of it as a blind date. All you initially have
in common at the bottom is the reason you’re there, the top of the mountain.”
― Anatoli Boukreev, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

“Mountains are different and unique from anything else you will face in life in that they are the truest, cleanest representative of life’s challenges in physical form. There is no mistaking the end goal, and there is no mistaking who got you there. You have to count on you, and your arrival at the summit is the simplest and most honest achievement for your soul that you can experience.”
― Matt Larson, 4000s by 40: Tackling Middle Age in the Mountains of New Hampshire

“When I am climbing, the mountain is part of me, and I am part of it.”
― Michael Schauch, A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya