The Reward Mountains Give To Effort

redbud blossoms,
Turquoise Canyon
(top)





Tower of Set,
Horn Creek Rapids
(below)

To those who have struggled with them, the mountains reveal beauties that they will not disclose to those who make no effort. That is the reward the mountains give to effort. And it is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly to those who will wrestle with them that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again.

---Sir Francis Younghusband