Mountains leave me speechless.

Those colossal cliffs and rocky peaks rise into the sky, towering above your head like battle-hardened giants.

It’s hard not to feel humbled!

But it’s even harder to find words that do them justice.

To address the issue, I decided to compile a comprehensive list of inspiring mountain quotes and mountain captions.

Whether you’re searching for mountain captions for Instagram posts or any other purpose, here are 175 epic captions and quotes about mountains!

[Last Updated: April 2023]

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175 Mountain Quotes & Mountain Captions for Instagram

I’ve split this post into two main sections, starting with mountain quotes and then moving onto some mountain captions for Instagram (with a few more quotes at the end!). I hope you find at least a few to use in your latest posts!

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Inspirational Mountain Quotes

Let’s start with the inspirational mountain quotes. Here’s a whole bunch of quotes about mountains from the people who know and love them best.

(Love adventure as much as mountains? You should enjoy this post too!)

My Favourite Quotes About Mountains

1. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir

2. “You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” – Dr. Seuss

3. “Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.” – Bradley Chicho

4. “Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.” – Victoria Erikson

5. “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

6. “You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.” – Rene Daumal

7. “The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth

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“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

9. “Always be thankful for the little things… even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views!” – Nyki Mack

10. “I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.” – Daniel J. Rice

11. “I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.” – Shannon L. Alder

12. “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” – Edward Abbey

13. “Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find the strength to rise up.” – Tyler Knott

14. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake

15. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay

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Beautiful Mountain Hiking Quotes

16. “I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don’t think of anything but the people I care about and the view.” – Julian Lennon

17. “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” – Jeffrey Rasley

18. “If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.” – Edmund Hillary

19. “I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.” – Sebastian Thrun

20. “Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

21. “Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”  – Sir Edmund Hillary

22. “You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.” – Tom Hiddleston

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“Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

24. “I like being near the top of a mountain, One can’t get lost here.” – Wislawa Szymborska

25. “The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.” – Conrad Anker

26. “May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits” – Harley King

27. “The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain – he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem – he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.” – William Arthur Ward

28. “The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.” – Jeanne Moreau

29. “I’m a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that’s me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I’d die; I don’t know what of, I just knew I’d die.” – John Marsden

30. “Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Inspiring Quotes About Beautiful Mountains

31. “Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.” – Greg Child

32. “In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home.” – Fred Beckey

33. “There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.” – Alex Lowe

34. “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”- Yvon Chouinard

35. “The greatest joy in climbing is to be in charge of one’s own destiny.” – Chris Bonnington

36. “Throw me to the mountains, I’ll be at peace as long as I will live.” – Shashank Rayal

37. “You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” – John Muir

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“When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.”

39. “You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.” – Lito Tejada-Flores

40. “What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” – Victor Hugogarf

41. “The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.” – Lori Lansens

42. “I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking of the mountains.” – John Muir

43. “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

44. “Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them.” – Swami Vivekanand

45. “Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.” – Anatoli Boukreev

Mountain Peace Quotes About Life

46. “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” – Aldous Huxley

47. “Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through, the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.” – Andy Andrews

48. “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” – Nemann Buhl

49. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it.” – Andy Rooney

50. “The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble—to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills.” – Phillip Connors

51. “Climbing has shown me a courageous, strong side of myself, a beautiful bravery. Other days I’ve seen pitiful weakness. I’ve watched myself crawl, belly-flat, across a mountainous landscape of fear. Climbing has shown me that I am all those things: strong and weak, brave and cowardly, both immune to and at the mercy of the death of death, all at the same time.” — Steve House

52. “Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.” – Brooke Hampton

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“Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

54. “The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.” – Herbert A. Simon

55. “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” – John Muir

56. “I’m always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I’ll build a new one.” – Sylvester Stallone

57. “I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.” – Andrew Garfield

58. “I had discovered that I am the kind of person who cannot live comfortably, tolerably, on all-flat terrain. For the sake of inner equilibrium there has to be at least one mountain range on at least one of the four quarters of my horizon-and not more than a day’s walk away.” – Edward Abbey

59. “The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” – Robert M. Pirsig

60. “In the mountains, there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t.” – Rusty Baillie

Mountain Quotes About Climbing Mountains

61. “The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.” – Paulo Coelho

62. “The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can’t conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.” – Jimmy Chin

63. “You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.”– Amit Kalantri

64. “No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.” – Chinese Proverb

65. “There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains.” – J. Sheridan Le Fanu

66. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

67. “What are men to rocks and mountains?” – Jane Austen

68. “Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.” — Bear Grylls

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“I don’t want to write about climbing or talk about it or photograph it or think about it; all I want to do is do it.”

70. “A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.” – Walter Bonatti

71. “The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.” – Thomas Wolfe

72. “Nothing lives long. Only the earth and mountains.” – Dee Brown

73. “As a professional climber, that’s the question you always get: Why, why, why? It’s an ineffable thing; you can’t describe it.” – Jimmy Chin

74. “Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you’re no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.” – Robert M. Pirsig

75. Stop staring at mountains. Climb them. It’s a harder process, but you get a better view. – Unknown

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75 Instagram Captions for Mountains Posts

Looking for captions about mountains to use in your latest IG posts? Well, here are 75 of the best mountain captions I could find and/or write! With any luck, you’ll find all the Instagram captions for mountains you could possibly need.

My Favourite Mountain Captions for Instagram

1. Feeling moved by immovable mountains.

2. The best view comes after the hardest climb.

3. Big mountains require lots of heart. They demand that you be better, which makes you so.

4. Climbing mountain peaks. Learning life lessons.

5. A view that’s worthy of the slog to the summit.

6. Nothing brings self-learning and newfound perspective like a hike up a mountain.

7. Dreams bigger than mountains tops. Bravery in abundance to help me climb them.

8. Feeling delightfully small among the sublimity of the mountains.

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“You can’t help but learn something when you scale a mountain summit.”

10. Tackle your dreams. Climb that mountain.

11. Dream as big as the mountains you wish you climb.

12. Back breaking. Lung busting. Leg burning. A normal day in the mountains.

13. More altitude, less attitude.

14. Disconnected to the internet. Reconnected with nature.

15. Successfully reconnecting with the world.

Miscellaneous Mountain Captions for Instagram

16. Let’s go walking he said. It won’t be hard he said.

17. I don’t know the meaning of life. But I reckon you’d learn it on a mountaintop.

18. Heaven close enough to touch.

19. In the sky and above the clouds- on top of the world.

20. They said the view would be worth it. They were right.

21. Forget the question. Mountains are the answer.

22. Keep calm and climb more mountains.

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“Mountain peaks and peak experiences.”

24. I hate to say it at the top of a mountain, but I think my life’s peaked.

25. Daunted at the start. Bruised on the ascent. Awed at the top.

26. Feeling privileged to see the world from this perspective.

27. Silence except for my fast-beating heart.

28. And to think I didn’t want to get out of bed today.

29. Adventure. It’s what I do.

30. I looked up to the summit with incredulity in my eyes. Now, a few short hours later, I’m looking down at the ground and out to the horizon with total disbelief. So much beauty.

Inspirational Mountain Instagram Captions

31. Bruised and battered, but far from broken.

32. You don’t just look at a mountain. You stare.

33. Mountains are my happy place.

34. Sat atop a summit, at home away from home.

35. Forever climbing mountains.

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“I’m humbled by the mountains, made small by their magnificence; lost for words at their beauty.”

37. If you ever need to feel newfound hope, climb a mountain.

38. At the bottom I’m a god. In the middle I’m a pilgrim. At the top I am nothing.

39. It wasn’t long before I realized I’d made a mistake. This journey wasn’t going to be easy. It was going to be hard. It was going to test me. And it was going to make me humble.

40. In the words of Miley Cyrus: “It’s the CLIIIIIIMMMBBB!”

41. The idea of climbing mountains is far more romantic than the reality of it. I grunted, shunted, shuffled and struggled my way up to this damn summit. But my god was it worth the effort!

42. Tested to the core. Knees, feet and ankles are sore. And what the hell for? The pursuit of more.

43. That view though.

44. #winning.

45. The top of the world!

Memorable Instagram Caption for Mountain View

46. It might not have been Everest, but it bloody well felt like it!

47. I don’t know exactly why we climb. But I’m pretty sure it’s got something to do with the view…

48. No matter how many times I sit at a mountain summit, I can’t help but get excited about the next one.

49. Mind-boggling beauty in its purest form.

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“Mother Nature doing her thing.”

51. Mother Nature putting on a magnificent, monumental mountain show!

52. Sunrises on summits. It’s the stuff of dreams.

53. Mountaintops and amazing mates.

54. There’s something special about crisp mountain air. It’s thin and fresh and makes me want to weep. If you could buy it in a bottle I’d be first in line.

55. You can’t help feel small on a mountain this massive.

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56. You might be at the summit now, but it’s all downhill from there.

57. What do fashionable mountains wear when it’s cold? An ice cap.

58. What’s the name of the funniest mountain range in the world? The Himhilarious.

59. What’s the smartest mountain in the world? Mount Cl-Everest.

60. How about the most dangerous mountain in the world? Kill-a-man-jaro.

61. Mountain walks are the ideal first date: steep and cheerful.

62. What’s a mountain’s favourite band? Range against the machine.

63. A disappointed Dad tells a knock knock joke to his teenage son: “Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “You’re a mountain.” “You’re a mountain, who?” “You’re a mountain to nothing, son!”

64. Why do pirates avoid mountain roads? ‘Scurvy.

65. What do you call a friendly volcano? Lava-ble.

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“Did you hear that story about the biggest mountain in the world? I couldn’t get over it.”

67. Meteorologists don’t just walk up mountains. They climate.

68. Don’t just talk about climbing the mountain- do it! I mean, actions peak louder than words.

69. Did you know that anybody can jump higher than a mountain? That’s right- mountains can’t jump.

70. Why did the man from Yorkshire, UK, climb the mountain? Because it was summit to do.

71. What did the climber call his son? Cliff.

72. Solving problems in the mountains is easy. It really Alps to clear your head.

73. The mountains in Switzerland are incredible. And their flag is a big plus as well.

74. A mountain biker was chased by a Grizzly this morning. He bearly made it.

75. A group of thirsty hikers stumbled across a crystal clear mountain stream and decided to take a drink. Alas, each of them got sick as a result. The life lesson? Never judge a brook by its colour.

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25 Final Quotes About Mountains to Finish

Still not found a mountain quote or caption you like? Here are 25 final mountain quotes that might do the trick.

1. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

2. “Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.” – Aleksander Lwow

3. “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir

4. “So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.” – Wu Ming-Yi

5. “Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” – Ed Viesturs

6. “The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows.” – Sam Cummings

7. “In a flat country, a hillock thinks itself a mountain.” – Turkish Proverb

8. “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.” – John Lubbock

9. “When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time.” – Catherine Pulsifer

10. “When preparing to climb a mountain – pack a light heart.” – Dan May

11. “Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.” – Jon Krakauer

12. “The deepest sea has a bottom, the highest mountain has a summit.” – Chinese Proverb

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“Mountains are the beginning and end of all natural scenery.”

14. “Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed.” – Jon Krakauer

15. “Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow’s gentle caress on their peaks.” – Munia Khan

16. “Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.” – Sir Martin Convay

17. “When the wind calls, you know, that somewhere in the mountains, it has found the answers that you were looking for. The pull of the horizon overcomes the inertia of reason… And you just have to go.” – Vikram Oberoi

18. “There’s a world out there, and you’ve got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.” – Bill Janklow

19. “Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.” – Charles Lindbergh

20. “The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.” – Rabindranath Tagore

21. “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” – Robert W. Service

22. “Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.” – Dale T. Mortensen

23. “If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.” – Vera Nazarian

24. “Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.” – Edmund Hillary

25. “This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.” – Bridget Asher

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Remember These Mountain Instagram Captions & Quotes about Mountains

Finding words to describe magnificent mountains is never easy. With so much beauty on display, they’re downright ineffable by nature!

And that’s never good when you’re trying to put together the perfect mountain captions for Instagram. Know the struggle?

Well, I hope the inspirational mountain quotes and mountain Instagram captions ideas here will help. Keep them in mind and you should be one step closer to writing the best possible captions for mountains.

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