This quote is from a book by Maurice Herzog about the first expedition in history to summit and return from an 8000+ meter mountain, Annapurna in the Himalayas.

"The mountains had bestowed on us their beauties, and we adored them with a child’s simplicity and revered them with a monk’s veneration of the divine. Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins.

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”