Climbing Quotes

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.

After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.

Doubt is the enemy of success.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity

I was quaking in my boots.

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

It is those who get lost, who find the new ways.

Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.

If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.

Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those are the climbs that force us to become better athletes and grow as climbers.

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection.

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Vy can't ve chust climb !

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!

Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava pouring down it?" "Little extra challenge..." - Percy