The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 10 (1929; rev. 1970), referring to mountaineering.
-- Aleister Crowley, (Oct 12 1875-1947), English occult writer; The Great Beast was a writer of occult lure and Black Magic rites.