Mountain Captions For Instagram [Quotes, Phrases & More]

Walking amongst giants is a phrase I often think of when out and about in the mountains of Switzerland. Those towering mountain peaks are so impressive you just can’t help taking an Instagram-worthy photo of them.

But now that you have that stunning mountain picture in front of you, what is the best mountain caption to go with it?

Take a peek at our huge list below and see which quote or caption catches your attention…

Mountain Captions

• If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain.
• A little more altitude, a little less attitude.
• When life gives you mountains put on your boots and hike.
• If you need me, you can find me in the mountains.
• Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead, yes, it’s a harder process but it will lead you to a better view.
• I am just a mountain girl at heart.
• Life should have more mountains and less stress.
• Mountains are the soul’s fuel.
• The mountains are my happy place.
• All I need is a mountain breeze and tall trees.
• And into the mountains, I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
• Going to the mountains is going home.
• Dear mountains, I think about you all the time.
• Over the mountains and through the woods.
• If it involves mountains, breakfast, coffee, or campfires – I’m in.

Inspirational Mountain Captions

• The best view comes after the hardest climb.
• It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
• Go where you feel most alive.
• When everything feels like an uphill struggle, think of the view from the top.
• I learn something every time I go into the mountains. – Michael Kennedy
• Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. – Barry Finlay
• Be like a mountain, aim to touch the sky but stay rooted to the ground.
• 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.
• Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books.
• All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. – Michael Kennedy
• I like the mountains because they make me feel small,’ Jeff says. ‘They help me sort out what’s important in life. – Mark Obmascik
• Climbing my way to bigger and better things.
• Memories made in the mountains stay in our hearts forever.
• Life is short. Go to the mountains and never look back.
• It’s just a hill get over it.

Short Mountain Captions

• Hike more. Worry Less.
• Go wild, for a while.
• Coffee. Mountains. Adventure.
• Adventure awaits.
• Fresh air, don’t care.
• Everything is better in the mountains.
• Take me to the mountains.
• Adjust your altitude
• She will move mountains.
• Find joy in the journey.
• Sky above earth below, peach within.
• On top of mountains.
• Faith can move mountains.
• Made for the mountains.
• Never miss a moment in the mountains.

One Word Mountain Captions

• Peak
• Highland
• Breezy
• Altitude
• Hilly
• Sheer
• Snow-capped
• Steep
• Adventure
• Snowy
• Escape
• Scenic
• Tremendous
• Serene
• Towering

Funny Mountain Captions

• On a date with mountains. Brb.
• Sometimes, you just need to change your altitude.
• It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
• Here is a photo of me and my therapist.
• Until further notice, assume that we’re peaking.
• I got so tired while climbing a tall mountain in Nepal. I did not think I would Everest.
• Time in the mountains is always snow much fun.
• Why can’t you play hide and seek with mountains? They always peak!
• No polluted air, traffic noise, angry neighbors. Might move here for good.
• I’m trying to mount-ain my distance.
• Mountains aren’t just funny. They’re hill areas.
• Did you hear that story about the biggest mountain in the world? I couldn’t get over it.
• How do you know what the weather is like at the top of a mountain? You climate.
• Mountains really peak my interest.
• How do mountains hear? Thanks to mountaineers, duuh.

Mountain Quotes For Captions

• Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.
  – Aleksander Lwow
• Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity. – John Muir
• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir
• Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. – Anatoli Boukreev
• The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir
• Nothing lives long, Only the earth and mountains. – Dee Brown
• When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart. – Dan May
• Each fresh peak ascended teaches something. – Sir Martin Conway
• When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them. – Edmund Hillary
• Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
  – David McCullough Jr.
• You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you. – John Muir
• Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down. – Sir Edmund Hillary
• The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another. – Marianne Williamson
• Mountains are the earth’s undecaying monuments. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney