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Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.
I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.
A man doesn't go to drink coffee after climbing, coffee is integral part of the climbing.
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.
Climbing is this lifestyle activity that really works every muscle in your body.
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.
L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps là où, un jour, ses yeux ont regardé. Et qui revient.
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.
No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.
It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.
What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you
God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.
Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!
There was a climber named Bridwell On grade I's he did well. But on grade VI, he got into a fix and rappelled to the talus and hid well.
The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.
You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!
I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.
Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades.
Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.
You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?
There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.
Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.
If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
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.
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.
How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?
Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.
I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.
For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.