Erhard Loretan Quotes

hI was following through on the mountain commitment from my younger days, and it's always a nice surprise when the newly minted adult doesn't disown the child he once was.

All my life, I have never felt as happy on Earth as when I'm getting closer to the sky.

I assure you it's harder to battle human stupidity than to do battle with mountains. Mountains, after all, have holds.

Keeping in mind the old mountain adage that the longer you take to set up your bivy site, the shorter the bivy you have to endure, we ended up taking two hours to dig the snow cave.

The altimeter had been damaged along the way, but the few bottles that we brought along to wash down the ordinary expedition rations were fine. True, a bottle gives only a vague indication of altitude, but can you drink an altimeter?

In a civilization of wage slaves, where people seek to survive more than to live, mountaineering is an enigma.