Alps Quotes

You can`t explain India to people. I can explain Ireland, Norway, the Alps, but I can`t explain India.

By alpine I mean that the gear is viable for ski mountaineering and touring in mountains as rugged as the Alps, or Alaska, or Canada.

Having to land in a bad place. That can happen when there is no wind and your gas starts to run out. You can find yourself blocked over the Alps for two hours and have to land on a forest or a rocky mountain peak.