Mountains are magnificent elevated portions of the Earth’s crust. Whether hiking or seeing one, get a good laugh with funny mountain quotes.
Mountains are beautiful, essential, and majestic. They form when the plates of Earth’s crust crash into each other.
The highest mountain above sea level is Mount Everest, at 29,029 feet. But the highest one from base to peak is Mauna Kea, at 33,500 feet.
Aside from being spectacular, mountains are essential for water, food, and biodiversity.
They also provide many activities and stories. If you’re ready to laugh, read the following mountain quotes.
Hilarious mountain quotes
1. “Mountains aren’t funny, they’re hill-areas.” -Unknown
2. “Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.” -Edmund Hillary
3. “When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil’s Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.” -Jon Krakauer
4. “As a mountain walker, one of the most frustrating mistakes one can make in bad weather is taking the wrong route down.” -Dominic Grieve
5. “When people start to annoy you, forget them. Just head to the mountains.” -Unknown
6. “I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.” -Andrew Garfield
7. “When preparing to climb a mountain – pack a light heart.” -Dan May
8. “It’s a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.” -Abby Wambach
9. “If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.” -Aurora Aksnes
10. “You don’t climb mountains without a team, you don’t climb mountains without being fit, you don’t climb mountains without being prepared and you don’t climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident – it has to be intentional.” -Mark Udall
11. “We’d go to the crappiest mountain because they had the cheapest lift tickets.” -Red Gerard
12. “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” -Hermann Buhl
13. “Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter who anyone is or what they do.” -Jimmy Chin
14. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddam mountain.” -Jack Kerouac
15. “A little more altitude, a little less attitude.” -Unknown
16. “Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire, and some peace and quiet.” -Brooke Hampton
17. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” -John Muir
18. “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” -Dag Hammarskjold
19. “I won’t ski in the backcountry the day after a big storm anymore. The mountains are so humbling. As soon as you think you’re on top or crushing it, that’s when you need to be really careful.” -Jimmy Chin
20. “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” -John Lubbock
21. “You can’t conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.” -Jimmy Chin
22. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” -John Muir
23. “You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.” -Stanislaw Lem
24. “In the mountains, there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t.” -Rusty Baillie
25. “In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home.” -Fred Beckey
26. “When life gives you mountains, put on your boots and hike.” -Unknown
27. “You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.” -Amit Kalantri
28. “You don’t need to climb a mountain to know that it’s high.” -Paul Coelho
29. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
30. “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” -Robert W. Service
31. “Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” -Ed Viesturs
32. “You’re off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.” -Dr. Seuss
33. “I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.” -Wislawa Szymborska
34. “Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.” -Unknown
35. “Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.” -Martin Conway
36. “What are men to rocks and mountains?” -Jane Austen
37. “No single mountain ever came to me… so I always go to them.” -Eric Tanghe
38. “The mountains were there and so was I.” -Maurice Herzog
39. “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” -Jeffrey Rasley
40. “Mountains terrify me – they just sit about; they are so proud.” -Sylvia Plath
41. “No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.” -Ansel Adams
“The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows.” -Sam Cummings
43. “Mountains make me believe that nothing can be bigger than nature, not even human ego.” -Jay Kumar Singh
44. “The sea tells you everything will be fine. The mountains tell you it doesn’t matter anyway.” -Adeel Ahmed Khan
45. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” -David McCullough, Jr.
46. “Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead. Yes, it’s a harder process, but it will lead you to a better view.” -Unknown
47. “Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.” -Greg Child
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