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We'll climb with you and steal your women.
Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.
On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.
Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.
You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.
I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.
I'm constantly out of my mind trying to stay in shape.
The best alpinists are the ones with the worst memories.
Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.
I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.
Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.
Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.
The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.
I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.
If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.
We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.
When I'm home, I still live like I'm traveling. I have nothing in my refrigerator.
Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.
You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward.
I'd rather climb 14a and eat whatever I want than climb 14d and measure out my food.
The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.
Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.
Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who anyone is or what they do.
You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.
I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.
I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.
My favorite off-mountain workout is the long run. It's great for building endurance and strength.
To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.
I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.
The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.
In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.
I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.
Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.
For me an adventure is something that I can take an active part in but that I don't have total control over.
When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.
Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.
A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.
I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life.
I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.
As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.
Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.
I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.
More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.
When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.
Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.
A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.
If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.